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Anarchist Ideology and The Working Class Movement in Spain, 1868-1898 - George R. Esenwein
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years,1868-1936 - Murray Bookchin
To Remember Spain - M Bookchin
The Anarchists of Casas Viejas - Jerome R Mintz
The Anarchists In the Spanish Civil War, Two volumes - Robert Alexander
Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution ( & appendix) - Jose Peirats
Vision On Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution
Blood of Spain - Ronald Fraser
The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain - Pierre Broue & Emile Temime (trots but worthwhile)
Anarchist Organization: The History of the F.A.I. - Juan Gomez Casas
The Anarchist Collectives: Workers Management and the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39 - Ed. Sam Dolgoff
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution - Gaston Leval
With the Peasants of Aragon - Augustin Souchy Bauer
The Friends of Durruti Group:1937-39 - Agustin Guillamon
Franco’s Prisoner - Miguel Garcia
Durruti: the People Armed - Abel Paz
Sabate: Guerrilla Extraordinary - Antonio Tellez
The May Days: Barcelona 1937 - Various, Freedom Press
Spain and the World: Social Revolution and Counter Revolution (collection of contemporary anarchist material) - Freedom Press
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution - Vernon Richards
A New World in our Hearts: The Faces of Spanish Anarchism - ed. Albert Meltzer
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
The Shallow Grave: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War - Walter Gregory
The Grand Camouflage: The Communist Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War
Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain - Felix Morrow (trot crap bible on Spain - very dishonest)
The Spanish Civil War: 1936-39 - Paul Preston (Passable/fair mainstream history, hostile to anarchism though)
The Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936-39 - ed. Paul Preston & Ann L. Mackenzie (some useful material)
Comrades! Portraits From the Spanish Civil War - Paul Preston (only concentrates on the big name politicians, including favourable look at the Stalinist la Pasionara!)
The Spanish Tragedy: The Civil War in Perspective - Raymond Carr
The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War - Franz Borkenau
The Spanish Civil War - Antony Beevor - (Surprisingly good account, and very well informed on the anarchist side of things - recommended as an introduction)
The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War - Gerald Brenan
The Spanish Civil War - Hugh Thomas (much revised and still not very good - much loved by clueless academics and journos)
Homage to the Spanish Exiles: Voices from the Spanish Civil War - Nancy Macdonald (account of the post-war refugees)
The Spanish Civil War: The View from the Left - Revolutionary History Volume 4, nos ½ - Various (important book sized edition of trotskyist journal, much very rare info and contemporary material - see also the slighter Vol 1 No 2, The hidden history of the Spanish Civil War)
Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War - ed. Ronald Radosh, Mary R Habeck & Grigory Sevostianov (collection of Soviet Documents that conclusively demonstrate the sabotage of the revolution by the Stalinists and their Spanish comrades - recommended)
The Asturian Uprising: Fifteen Days of Socialist Revolution - Manuel Grossi
The International Revolutionary Solidarity Movement - 1st May Group
Cockburn in Spain - ed. James Pettier (Without a doubt the worst book ever written - a collection of Articles from the Eton educated Stalinist reporter for the CPGB’s Daily Worker - the biggest tissue of lies ever to be published - would be funny if it weren’t so tragic)
The Signal was Spain: The Aid Spain Movement in Britain 1936-1939 - Jim Fyrth


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