Presents a full-blooded account of the pivotal period in twentieth-century European history. This book vividly recounts the struggles of the war, analyzes the w... » 

Presents a full-blooded account of the pivotal period in twentieth-century European history. This book vividly recounts the struggles of the war, analyzes the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, and assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War was a portent of the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it. «