The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
The Spanish Civil War in a short book, from the coup of 1936 to the long shadow it cast.
Helen Graham, a leading historian of the war, gives a compact account of the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. She explains the social conflicts that led to the military coup, the course of the fighting and the repression on both sides, and places Spain’s war within the wider European crisis of the 1930s. She also looks at how the war has been remembered since.
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Paul Preston
I think Helen Graham is probably the most profound historian writing about the Spanish Civil War in the English language. This little book, an Oxford University Press paperback, which is a short introduction, is a remarkable work in that in a very short space she manages to deal with everything. Despite spending 40 years researching this subject myself, I found that it just glitters with insights. It gave me angles on things that I hadn’t necessarily thought about before and yet is still a very good book to read if you are an absolute beginner on the subject.
Interview · January 2012
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