The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge [Paperback]

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, Preston assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War presaged the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it.The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.