The Spanish Civil War was not simply a class struggle, it was conflict between right and left, between centralist and regionalist forces, and between authoritarianism and libertarianism. It was also a war of atrocities and political genocide, and a military testing ground for some of the major players in the Second World War: Russia, Italy and Germany, whose Condor Legion destroyed the Basque provincial capital of Guernica. In this clear and comprehensive account Anthony Beevor describes in detail the major events of the Spanish Civil War, from the coup d'etat in the summer of 1936 to the fina
Anthony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. He has written several novels. His non-fiction includes Inside the British Army, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (which won him a Runciman Prize in 1992), and in 1998 the best-selling Stalingrad.
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