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Article: The bloodiest civil war of all; Critic's choice THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939 by Anthony Beevor (Weidenfeld, [pounds sterling]25).(Book review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2006
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Byline: TOM ROSENTHAL
ONE of the many shrewd observations in this exhaustive study of the Spanish Civil War is that much of the best comment and analysis of those three bloody years came from the losing side, a rare - if not unique - thing in conventional military history.
Beevor first wrote about this war shortly after the death of Franco in 1975 and published a book in 1982, at a time when truthful and accurate information was, thanks to Franco's faithful spiritual heirs, hard to come by.
But, with the restoration - some would say the establishment - of democracy in Spain, long buried or censored evidence has come to light, while crucial ...