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“jonathan whitehead”

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  • The End of the Spanish Civil War

    Alicante 1939

    by Jonathan Whitehead ...
    A history of the final stages of Franco's victory. The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco's Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between apparently futile resistance or unconditional surrender to the triumphant Nationalists. Choosing the ... Read more

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  • Spanish Republicans and the Second World War

    Republic Across the Mountains

    by Jonathan Whitehead ...
    Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in 1939 as Catalonia fell to Franco’s victorious army in the final weeks of the Civil War. Many of the exiles played an active part in the Second World War. Some joined the French and British armed forces and saw action in various theatres including Africa and Europe ... Read more

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  • Spain in Arms

    A Military History of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    by E. R. Hooton ...
    This detailed military history of the Spanish Civil War dispels long-held misconceptions and sheds significant new light on the conflict.Spain in Arms chronicles the development of the Spanish Civil War on the battlefield, examining eight campaigns waged between 1937 and 1939. Through detailed analysis, it demonstrates how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon ... Read more

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  • Lisbon

    War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45

    by Neill Lochery ...
    Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Spanish Civil War

    Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (Text Only)

    by Paul Preston ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Spain In Our Hearts

    Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government ... Read more

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  • The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)

    Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

    by Paul Preston ...
    The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Operation Garbo

    The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II

    by Juan Pujol García, Nigel West ...
    He was GARBO to the Allies and ALARIC to the Germans – the most successful double agent of the Second World War. Indeed, his spy network across Britain was so highly regarded that he was decorated for his achievements … by both sides.Throughout the war, GARBO kept the Germans supplied with reports from his ring of twenty-four agents. Hitler's spymasters never discovered or even suspected a double ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Spain

    The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

    by Antony Beevor ...
    A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of ArnhemTo mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    Revised Edition

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    “Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Destruction of Guernica

    by Paul Preston ...
    The leading historian on the Spanish Civil War reveals the truth about one of the most horrifying events of the twentieth century – the destruction of Guernica.Guernica, a quiet market town in the Basque region of northern Spain. On Monday 26 April 1937, as the Spanish Civil War raged, the market square was busy with farmers and townspeople. Just before five o’clock in the afternoon the sky ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War

    by Paul Preston ...
    Map best viewed on a tablet device.An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the nationalist side and the extent to which the Spanish war prefigured World War II.No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD