About the Author

Geoffrey Jensen is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including War and Society, Nations and Nationalism, and Journal of Contemporary History.

Reviews

"Irrational Triumph is a superb study of the intellectual conflicts and ideological syntheses that helped shape both Spanish military culture and subsequent Spanish history in general." --Julian Ammirante, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

"Jensen's analysis demonstrates a grasp of the ideologies of the time and deepens our understanding of the complex mind of the Spanish military in the first quarter of the twentieth century." -Sebastian Balfour, American Historical Review

This is an excellent and well-researched book, delivered in a style which makes the sometimes heady intellectual writings of these officers comprehensible." --Wayne Bowen