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Authors: Antony Beevor
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The battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN
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THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936–1939
ANTONY BEEVOR
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
LONDON
First published in Great Britain in 2006
by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
An earlier version of this book was published by Orbis Publishing Ltd in 1982
under the title
The Spanish Civil War
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ISBN: 1-4295-1201-6
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
POLITICAL PARTIES, GROUPINGS AND ORGANIZATIONS
INITIALS
PART ONE:
Old Spain and the Second Republic
1 Their Most Catholic Majesties
PART TWO:
The War of Two Spains
12 The Army of Africa and the People’s Militias
PART THREE:
The Civil War Becomes International
15 The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic
16 The International Brigades and the Soviet Advisers
18 The Metamorphosis of the War
19 The Battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara
21 The Propaganda War and the Intellectuals
23 The Civil War within the Civil War
27 The Destruction of the Northern Front and of Republican Idealism
PART SIX:
The Route to Disaster
28 The Battle of Teruel and Franco’s ‘Victorious Sword’
32 The Republic in the European Crisis
34 The Collapse of the Republic
35 The New Spain and the Franquist Gulag
36 The Exiles and the Second World War
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SOURCES
NOTES
INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Sections of photographs appear on end of the book.
PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT I
:
King Alfonso XIII getting to know his people
1
King Alfonso XIII with General Miguel Primo de Rivera
2
Crowds celebrating in Madrid, 14 April
1931
2
Lerroux, President Alcalá Zamora and Gil Robles, 1934
3
Civil guards arrest a socialist in Madrid, October 1934
3
Civil Guards escort their prisoners after the failed revolution in Asturias, October 1934
3
José Antonio Primo de Rivera and fellow Falangists
3
Shooting breaks out during the funeral of a civil guard officer suspected of an attempt to kill President Azaña, April 1936
3
Franco reaches Ceuta from the Canary Islands to take over command of the Army of Africa, 18 July 1936
1
Carlist volunteers flock to the main square of Pamplona to become General Mola’s main force, 19 July 1936
4
Assault guards and anarcho-syndicalist workers of the CNT with a captured field-gun in Barcelona
3
POUM militia in the Carlos Marx barracks in Barcelona
3
A
bandera
of the Foreign Legion rounds up villagers during Yagüe’s advance north, August 1936
3
Colonel Varela’s troops advance into Toledo, 28 September 1936
2
Colonel Moscardó, Varela and Franco celebrate the relief of the Alcázar of Toledo
3
Yagüe, Franco and Serrano Súñer
3
Luftwaffe pilots with their Heinkel He-45 fighter-bombers
3
PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT II
:
Dolores Ibárruri, ‘La Pasionaria’, making a speech, 14 October 1936
2
The captain of a Soviet ship is welcomed by Companys and Antonov-Ovseenko
3
Mikhail Koltsov and Roman Karmen in the trenches before Madrid
2
The fighting in the Casa de Campo, November 1936
3
Refugees sheltering in the Madrid metro during an air-raid
3
International Brigade troops march through Madrid
3
Propaganda photo of a Soviet pilot with his ‘Chato’
2
Women in Málaga terrified by a nationalist air raid
3
Carliest
requetés
being blessed before going into battle
3
Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen with nationalist and Condor Legion officers
3
El Campesino making a speech
3
Juan García Oliver broadcasts an appeal for calm during the May events in Catalonia
3
Assault guards brought in to restore order marching through Barcelona, 6 May 1937
2
General Pozas and communist officers take over the Catalan council of defence, May 1937
3
Juan Modesto at the Battle of Brunete, July 1937
2
Republican wounded at Brunete
2
PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT III
:
The winter fighting of Teruel, December 1937
2
An International Brigade officer at Teruel
2
Prieto observes the fighting at Teruel
2
Condor Legion Stukas with nationalist markings, 1938
2
Panzer Mark Is advancing
3
The nationalists reach the sea at Vinaròs, 15 April 1938
2
Condor Legion 88mm anti-aircraft guns, summer 1938
2
Republican soldiers under bombardment during the Battle of the Ebro
2
A republican hospital train behind the Ebro front, summer 1938
3
General Rojo, Juan Negrín and Líster at a farewell parade for the International Brigades, October 1938
2
Colonel Casado listens while Julián Besteiro broadcasts the manifesto of the National Council of Defence, March 1939
5
Republican refugees swarm across the French frontier in the Pyrenees, January 1939
6
Republican prisoners in the French internment camp of Le Vernet
3
Condor Legion standard dipped in salute to Franco at the victory parade, 19 May 1939
2
The indoctrination of republican orphans
3
Hitler and Franco meet at La Hendaye (photo montage), October 1940
2
The Spanish Blue Division in Russia on the Leningrad front
2
1
Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya
2
Agencia EFE