| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xx, 700 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1: The origins of hatred and violence. Social war begins, 1931-1933 ; Theorists of extermination ; The right goes on the offensive, 1933-1934 ; The coming of war, 1934-1936 -- pt. 2: Institutionalized violence in the rebel zone. Queipo's terror : the purging of the South ; Mola's terror : the purging of Navarre, Galicia, Castile and León -- pt. 3: The consequence of the coup : spontaneous violence in the Republican zone. Far from the front : repression behind the Republican lines ; Revolutionary terror in Madrid -- pt. 4: Madrid besieged : the threat and the response. The Column of Death's march on Madrid ; A terrified city responds : the massacres of Paracuellos -- pt. 5: Two concepts of war. Defending the Republic from the enemy within ; Franco's slow war of annihilation -- pt. 6: Franco's investment in terror. No reconciliation : trials, executions, prisons -- Epilogue: The reverberations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [535]-654) and index. |
| Summary |
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain. |
| Subject |
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Atrocities.
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Political persecution -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
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Political atrocities -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
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Spain -- History -- 1939-1975.
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| ISBN |
9780393064766 hardcover |
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039306476X hardcover |
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