The Spanish Civil War
by Paul Preston |
The Spanish Cockpit
by Franz Borkenau | 
The Battle for Spain
by Antony Beevor |
The Spanish Civil War
by Hugh Thomas |
Rivers of Gold
by Hugh Thomas | 
The Spanish Holocaust
by Paul Preston |
The Spanish Labyrinth
by Gerald Brenan |
Empires of the Atlantic World
by J. H. Elliott |
The Confident Hope of a Miracle
by Neil Hanson |
1492
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | 
Spain in Our Hearts
by Adam Hochschild |
The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley |
Catastrophe
by David Keys |
Civilization
by Roger Osborne | 
The Basque History of the World
by Mark Kurlansky | 
The Great War for Civilisation
by Robert Fisk | 
Ghost Wars
by Steve Coll | 
Fiasco
by Thomas E. Ricks | 
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran | 
The March of Folly
by Barbara W. Tuchman |
Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the lay-reader alike. This Very Short Introduction integrates the political, social and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War. It sets out the domestic and international context of the war for a general readership. In addition to tracing the course of war, the book locates the war's origins in the cumulative social and cultural anxieties provoked by a process of rapid, uneven and accelerating modernism taking place all over Europe. This shared context is key to the continued sense of the war's importance. The book also examines the myriad of political polemics to which the war has given rise, as well as all of the latest historical debates. It assesses the impact of the war on Spain's transition to democracy and on the country's contemporary political culture.