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The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 battle field. 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 masterful

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Hugh Thomas
Publisher
London: Harper
Published
1962
Language
EN
Category
history
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
4.11 / 5 (568 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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