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  <default_description> &lt;B&gt;A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of  &lt;I&gt;Stalingrad&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;The Fall Of Berlin 1945&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a  completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the  twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other  sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a  balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to  World War II and affording new insights into the war&amp;#151;its causes, course, and consequences.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent analysis of a conflict in which the Spanish people are the filling in a sandwich, the slices comprising a fight between the extreme right and extreme left. To make matters worse, as is well known, the conflict became the testing ground for Hitler and Stalin to play with their toys of wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75138405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just got this for Christmas from my Dad.  Not exactly an anarchist perspective but a good over all.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this book 5 or 6 years.  Because I was intimidated by the complexity of the political events in Spain during the 1930s I'd put off reading it.  Many years ago--1967--I read the Hugh Thomas history of the Spanish Civil War and had gotten lost in the mazes and Babel of parties right, center, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60298688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, seven chapters (80 pages) in, I have to acknowledge that I find Beevor's book pretty much unreadable. It's a combination of poor organization (it's hard to figure out at any given point where he is going with things - he makes detours from a purely chronological account for no apparent reason)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35444853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazon 2008-04-12<br/><br/>I really enjoyed the intimacy and depth of Beevor's <em>Stalingrad: The Siege</em>, and this brought just as much effort to the Ejército Popular Republicanos' struggle against Nicolas Franco's <em>nacionales</em>: the Ejército Nacional, Catholic loyalists, fascist allies from <em>Estado Nov...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20032990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a comprehensive and detailed account on the Spanish civil war. Before reading it, I thought I knew roughly enough about the war and the role of countries like Germany and Italy on one hand, and the Soviet Union on the other. Well, I did not. Not to talk about the role of France and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8431912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Antony Beevor is an excellent historian and this book is no exception - indeed, it is one of the most lucid and thoughtful accounts of the Spanish Civil War and the main players on both sides of the conflict. This edition makes full use of new research on the conflict, and allows Beevor to show the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75218089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many seem to think Beevor is a genius, and he may well be as far as his research and insight are concerned, but god help me if I can see it, since reading him is agony to me. This is the 3rd book of his I've read (after <strong>Stalingrad</strong> and <strong>Berlin</strong>) and I find his style to be so stilted and convoluted that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56500160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to abandon this book after about a hundred pages.  I'm completely ignorant of Spanish history and I was hoping this would be a good ground-floor overview.  Unfortunately it was way over my head.  If you've never read anything about the Spanish Civil War, I don't recommend starting here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whilst it retains the usual well written mix of facts and personal experiences for which Beevor is well known I found this volume less easy to follow than other books of his. I think that's mostly due to the complex situation in Spain during the period covered than anything else, but also the style ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5636958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did not finish. For such an important, historic war, this is the most godawful boring account of it. Pass on this and find a better retelling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was really interesting.  Lots of detail - it gave a good understanding of something grazed over in history classes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not done reading this yet but it's a good intro to the madness that engulfed Spain in the mid-1930's. I have to say that some of the background information as to what actually happened at the beginning of the war is a little unclear (this is why I am not giving the book 5 out of 5 stars). Other than...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4539444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Litt tjukk bok dette, men veldig lærerik.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I selected this book because the Spanish Civil War is an event in history about which I was relatively ignorant.  This book is a pretty good comprehensive history of the conflict, but doesn’t always keep the readers’ attention and is frequently confusing—Beevor could have done a better job of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15943262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first foray into the Spanish Civil War, and the extensive cast of characters and unfamiliar geography of Spain made this a somewhat laborious read for me - a little like a russian novel (where everyone seems to have a dozen different names and you almost have to keep a thesaurus of names to keep ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11013811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book informative, but dry. I suppose that it's inevitable with a so much happening everywhere in a civil war (that's part of the horror of it), but I found that this book was too detailed and I could keep track of all the things that were happening simultaneously.<br/><br/>That said, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28861132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As other reviewers have noted, The Spanish Civil War is not an easy war to write about.  So many factions, so many events, all occurring at the same time that any book that attempts to do them justice would be monolithic (such as Hugh Thomas' definitive tome).  Beevor struggles against the mountain ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1039880">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG is this book dense! I checked this out from the library, but wasn't able to finish it before my time was up. I even rechecked it out and that wasn't enough time. I may have to buy this book and read it over a period of time. There are too many political groups to juggle in my head. Call me a dum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57441516">more...</a>]]></body>
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