The Spanish Civil War

London: Penguin Books with Hamish Hamilton, 1984 Third Edition (revised and enlarged). "A prodigy of a book. With boundless, incredible industry and sustained intelligence the author has assembled and studied all the available facts about the most heroic and pitiful story of this century." Michael Foot in Tribune. Though it is forty years since the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, it is still a subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight for a cause for which their governments would not give active support? In this completely revised edition of his famous history Hugh Thomas presents an objective analysis of a conflict - where fascism and democracy, communism and christianity centralism and regionalism were all at stake - and which was as much an international civil war as a Spanish one. "I have read it from cover to cover with enthralling interest . he has the historian's most important quality, a tremendous appetite for detail and a grasp of the essential. Almost no aspect of the Civil War, however painful or unpopular, escapes him in this splendid book." - Cyril Connolly in the Sunday Times. --------------------------- 1114 pages including index ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 5" Wide - 7¾" Tall