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    <![CDATA[More than 20 years after one of the most bitterly cruel civil wars in European history, the story of that war appears in English in this attempt to set down dispassionately what happened during those terrible years. Not only is such a book sorely needed as a document, but as a corrective against the sea of misinformation, myth &amp; lie which has swelled up about the Spanish tragedy. How many times today do we hear that the war was Communist inspired or &quot;a part of the Communist plot of world domination&quot;. The author corrects this by carefully, explicitly, covering the origins of the war as they developed in the 20's &amp; early 30's. He discusses the fight between Carlists, syndicalists, socialists, liberals, Falangists, Communists, militarists &amp; regional autonomy advocates, who continually tore the central Madrid government apart. He shows the liberal Azana as a figurehead, buffetted by forces &amp; events around him, until, on that bloody July day of 1936, the shooting started. Then he recaptures the awful years after--Franco's arrival with the Army of Africa, murder in the towns, the long siege of Madrid, loss of the Ebro &amp; finally the sad fall of Barcelona in 1939. This is a vitally important book, one which serves history in the best sense. It will still arouse anger in many partisan quarters, perhaps with justification, but it remains still a must for students of politics &amp; history.--Kirkus (edited)]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This thoroughly comprehensive and somewhat exhausting history nevertheless kept me more or less engrossed for its substantial duration.  While difficult to keep track of the various politicians, activists, commanders and generals that make appearances throughout, Thomas nevertheless projects a inten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31807117">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though old, this remains one of the least biased, most scholarly histories of the Spanish Civil War.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hugh Thomas has written several books that are all characterized by two things; they are extraordinarily comprehensive regarding their subject, and I keep finding myself losing interest as the story goes on. Not to say it isn't a good book, it's just something about Thomas's style that makes it feel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5243225">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[an exhaustive history of the byzantine political and military struggles that took place in spain 36-39.  pretty good book, but man are there a lot of names and places.  requires patience.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[class 5 ebtedayi boodam ke in ketabo khoondam(kheili tasadofi too ketabkhooneye dayim didam)va az oon moghe asheghe tarikhe jange dakhelie spania shodam;)]]></body>
    
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