xxxviii, 586 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
pt. 1. Old Spain and the second republic 1. Their most Catholic majesties 2. Royal exit 3. The second republic 4. The popular front 5. The fatal paradox part 2. The war of two Spains 6. The rising of the generals 7. The struggle for control 8. The red terror 9. The white terror 10. The nationalist zone 11. The republican zone 12. The army of Africa and the people's militias part 3. The civil war becomes international 13. Arms and the diplomats 14. Sovereign states 15. The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic 16. The international brigades and the soviet advisers 17. The battle for Madrid part 4. World war by proxy 18. The metamorphosis of the war 19. The battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara 20. The war in the north 21. The Propaganda War and the intellectuals part 5. Internal tensions 22. The struggle for power 23. The civil war within the civil war 24. The battle of Brunete 25. The beleaguered republic 26. The war in Aragon 27. The destruction of the northern front and of republican idealism part 6. The route to disaster 28. The battle of Teruel and Franco's 'victorious sword' 29. Hopes of peace destroyed 30. Arriba España! 31. The battle of the Ebro 32. The republic in the European crisis 33. The fall of Catalonia 34. The collapse of the republic part 7. Vae victis! 35. The new Spain and the Franquist gulag 36. The exiles and the Second World War 37. The unfinished war 38. Lost causes
