The Spanish Civil War
Revised Edition (Modern Library (Paperback))
by Hugh Thomas
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Spanish Civil War, Most Recommended Books, and History.
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic co...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Spanish Civil War, Most Recommended Books, and History.
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Marc Andreessen
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
“3. Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed. The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Spain In Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild Mine Were Of Trouble by Peter Kemp”
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