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Article: Spanish civil war. (Frontline).
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- History Today
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- November 1, 2001
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THE LAST TIME THAT ANYONE did a serious count, there were over 15,000 books published about the Spanish Civil War. That was in 1968 and the counting was done by a team from Franco's Ministry of Information. The scale of the literature then was partly a result of the fact that, since 1939, the propagandists of the victorious Caudillo had been producing, on an industrial scale, books and pamphlets interpreting the war in such a way as to justify the existence of the dictatorship. In turn, this material had stimulated counter-efforts from both defeated Republicans in exile, their foreign sympathisers and independent scholars the world over. In the thirty-three years following ...