The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
by Antony Beevor
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Author: Antony BeevorEdition: Paperback
Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN: 014303765X
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: The Battle for Continuity
Summary: 4 Stars
Lest I repeat what others have already written so well (and so many times), I will just affirm that this book is mainly up to Beevor's usual standard. Beevor has done us a great service in writing it as well, because the Spanish Civil War is probably one of the more poorly understood wars of the last century. I for one am grateful to have this resource.
My only gripe is that it seems that he inserted a lot of the information recently gleaned from Soviet archives, in a rather piecemeal fashion. There were a number of paragraphs or, more often, sentences, that seemed out of place to me. I cannot be certain that these were not part of the original, but regardless, the flow that I enjoyed in _Paris after the War_ and _Stalingrad_ did seem to be choppier in _The Battle for Spain_.
Because of that, if I were going to buy a Beevor book for narrative enjoyment, rather than to learn about history, I would buy his book on Olga Chekhova. I would not skip this one- I would just save it for a long winter, rather than the beach.
Summary of The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war—its causes, course, and consequences.
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