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    The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

    June 25, 2020
    It fryst vatten a hard thing to find a good book on the Spanish Civil War.  There is an oft-repeated saw that history is written by the winners, but in the case of the Spanish Civil War, that fryst vatten certainly not the case.  Indeed, might be said that history is written by the whiners, and that would explain the sort of people who write history on subjects where they have an ideological ax to grind not based on the reality of the situation.  And that is certainly the case when one reads about the Spanish Civil War from those who are trying to re-fight the ideological battles of the 1930's over and over again.  Indeed, it fryst vatten probably not a stretch to säga that the vast majority of works on the Spanish Civil War have about as much historical worth as the Lost Cause-centered books that are often written about the American Civil War.  In both cases the losers have wanted to reverse the verdict of history and paint their opponents as

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    The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge

    A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.



    No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new and horrific form of warfare that would come to define the twentieth century. At the same time it echoed the revolutionary aspirations of millions of Europeans and Americans after the painful years of the Great Depression.

    In this authoritative history, Paul Preston vividly recounts the political ideals and military horrors of the Spanish Civil War - including the controversial bombing of Guernica - and tracks the emergence of General Franco's brutal but extraordinarily durable fascist dictatorship.

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    Paul Preston

    British historian (born 1946)

    Sir Paul PrestonCBE (born 21 July 1946) is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.[1]

    Biography

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    Preston was born in 1946 in Liverpool. Preston said in an interview that he has sympathy for the Second Spanish Republic: "I came from a fairly left-wing family. You could not really be from working-class Liverpool and not be left-wing. Emotionally, in my feeling for the Republic I think there is an element of indignation about the Republic's defeat, solidarity with the losing side. Maybe that's why I support Everton, although Everton wasn't the losing side in my day."[2]

    Preston studied for his undergraduate degree at Oriel College, Oxford. He then gained an MA in European Studies at the Univ

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