- Summary
- Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Preston, Paul, 1946-
- Published
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012
- Locale
- Spain
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Contents
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Pt. 1: The origins of hatred and violence. Social war begins, 1931-1933 ; Theorists of extermination ; The right goes on the offensive, 1933-1934 ; The coming of war, 1934-1936
Pt. 2: Institutionalized violence in the rebel zone. Queipo's terror : the purging of the South ; Mola's terror : the purging of Navarre, Galicia, Castile and León
Pt. 3: The consequence of the coup : spontaneous violence in the Republican zone. Far from the front : repression behind the Republican lines ; Revolutionary terror in Madrid
Pt. 4: Madrid besieged : the threat and the response. The Column of Death's march on Madrid ; A terrified city responds : the massacres of Paracuellos
Pt. 5: Two concepts of war. Defending the Republic from the enemy within ; Franco's slow war of annihilation
Pt. 6: Franco's investment in terror. No reconciliation : trials, executions, prisons
Epilogue: The reverberations.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1: The origins of hatred and violence. Social war begins, 1931-1933 ; Theorists of extermination ; The right goes on the offensive, 1933-1934 ; The coming of war, 1934-1936 -- Pt. 2: Institutionalized violence in the rebel zone. Queipo's terror : the purging of the South ; Mola's terror : the purging of Navarre, Galicia, Castile and León -- Pt. 3: The consequence of the coup : spontaneous violence in the Republican zone. Far from the front : repression behind the Republican lines ; Revolutionary terror in Madrid -- Pt. 4: Madrid besieged : the threat and the response. The Column of Death's march on Madrid ; A terrified city responds : the massacres of Paracuellos -- Pt. 5: Two concepts of war. Defending the Republic from the enemy within ; Franco's slow war of annihilation -- Pt. 6: Franco's investment in terror. No reconciliation : trials, executions, prisons -- Epilogue: The reverberations.
