Defence of Madrid
Author | : Geoffrey Cox |
Publisher | : London : V. Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Madrid (Spain) |
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Author | : Geoffrey Cox |
Publisher | : London : V. Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Madrid (Spain) |
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Author | : Amanda Marie Spencer |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Robert Garland Colodny |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1412839246 |
The Struggle for Madrid is a study of the battles that were waged between the armies of the Spanish Republic and the armies of General Francisco Franco for the city of Madrid. It was this struggle, beginning with the collapse of Republican arms at Toledo in September, 1936, and ending with the victory of the Madrid armies at Guadalajara in March, 1937, that determined the duration and characteristics of the rest of the conflict. It was the central episode of the Spanish War. Due to international intervention, the Spanish struggle lost its purely national character and became at once a civil war of a profoundly Spanish type, a war of independence waged by a section of the Spanish people against German, Italian, and Moroccan armies, and a clash of supra national ideologies that aroused the deepest passions of peoples far removed from the immediate Spanish interests at stake. Although the passions aroused by the war distort contemporary accounts of the fighting, the totalities of these obstacles present no insurmountable barrier to a preliminary investigation of the Madrid battles. Such a study is best undertaken while many of the principal actors in the Madrid tragedy still live. If truth has been affronted the witnesses may yet speak, and from the debate margin of error will be reduced. Robert Colodny's groundbreaking cross of military history and political ambitions helps reduce the gap between fiction and fact.
Author | : Julius Ruiz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139993046 |
This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of the police, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy - the 'Fifth Column' - was regarded as important as the war on the front line.
Author | : E. R. Hooton |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612006388 |
This detailed military history of the Spanish Civil War dispels long-held misconceptions and sheds significant new light on the conflict. Spain in Arms chronicles the development of the Spanish Civil War on the battlefield, examining eight campaigns waged between 1937 and 1939. Through detailed analysis, it demonstrates how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon half-truths and propaganda. From the Madrid Front to the Catalonia Offensive, each campaigns is chronicled with special focus on the weapons and tactics used, as well as the moment-to-moment decisions of both Republican and Nationalist generals. Hooton also sheds light on the true extent of foreign intervention in the conflict. Using British and French archives, he produces a more accurate—and radically different—account of the battles and the factors that shaped them. Ultimately, Hooton reveals the superiority of the Nationalist alliance in both training and overall command. Spain in Arms draws on specialized German, Italian and Russian works, and is the first book to quote secret data about Italian air operations intercepted by the British. A magisterial work of military history, it combines detailed analysis with historical context, showing how the events of the Spanish civil War provide a link between the First and Second World Wars.
Author | : Geoffrey Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Madrid (Spain) |
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"Geoffrey Cox's eyewitness account of 1936 Madrid under aerial and ground attack from Franco and his fascist allies.
Author | : Paul Preston |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1134811136 |
A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.
Author | : George Richard Esenwein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Spain |
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Author | : Phil Gillan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Madrid (Spain) |
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Author | : Harry Browne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317888170 |
This study offers a succinct analysis of a critical period in Spain's history. It assesses the causes and course of the Civil War and covers Franco's New Spain. For the Second Edition there is a fuller examination of the politics of the Second Republic and the regional and social bases of Spain's political parties. There is also a more detailed account of the military conduct of the war and of the extent of international involvement.