The Spanish Civil War
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New York : Modern Library, 2001.
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0375755152, 9780375755156
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Published
New York : Modern Library, 2001.
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Book
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xx, 1096 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
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English
ISBN
0375755152, 9780375755156

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [947]-994) and index.
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The events, participants, and consequences of the civil war are examined from historical as well as diplomatic, military, and political perspectives. A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times) has been given a fresh face forty years after its initial publication in 1961. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomas analyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, and dogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no other account, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles the events that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink of world war, to divide against itself, bringing into play the machinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, and the deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side of democracy. Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats, the various forces of the Spanish Civil War composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and Thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Thomas, H. (2001). The Spanish Civil War (Revised edition, Modern Library paperback edition.). Modern Library.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Thomas, Hugh, 1931-2017. 2001. The Spanish Civil War. Modern Library.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Thomas, Hugh, 1931-2017. The Spanish Civil War Modern Library, 2001.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War Revised edition, Modern Library paperback edition., Modern Library, 2001.

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