Spanish Civil War Reading List
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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For those readers of the Times-Union who are fans of history, politics, and military strategy and tactics, or who would be interested in reading about one of the most divisive conflicts in the 20th century – the Spanish Civil War.
A conflict that still stirs heated arguments in some circles even now in 2012. It should also serve as a warning to any nation, even our own, about the dangers of persistent economic stagnation, geopolitical decline caused by imperial overreach, political polarization of the electorate, partisan gridlock and the resulting breakdown of government and other vital institutions, the lack of a common identity that genuinely unifies a nation and its naturally and vastly diverse people, and finally the misguided acceptance by the general population of authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorship as the one and only path to peace, prosperity, progress and liberty.
Then they should take the time to read some of the well-documented books about the Spanish Civil War listed in the recommended reading list in the middle part of this letter. Interested readers will find these books available at the Warsaw Public Library or other libraries in the county, Amazon.com, or at their nearest bookstore.
Recommended reading list
1. The Spanish Civil War: An Illustrated Chronicle 1936-1939 (1986)
2. The Spanish Civil War (1982)
3. Spain Under Franco: A History: The Story of Spain and its People from the Rise of the Franco Dictatorship to the Present (1974)
4. The Franco Regime: 1936-1975 (1987)
5. Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany and World War II (2008)
6. Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War (2001)
7. Interlink Illustrated Histories: The Spanish Civil War (1999)
8. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-1939 (1965)
9. The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War (1991)
10. The Odyssey of the American Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (1994)
11. They Shall Not Pass: The Autobiography of La Pasionaria (1967)
12. Anarchists of Andalusia 1868-1903 (1977)
13. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain (1970)
14. Homage to Catalonia (1959)
15. The Spanish Revolution 1931-1939 (1973)
16. The Regions of Spain: A Reference Guide to History and Culture (1995)
Books that are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library
Books that are listed in the Bibliography of Interlink Illustrated Histories: The Spanish Civil War
A brief overview of this conflict based on some of those books just previously listed will follow at a later date.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
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For those readers of the Times-Union who are fans of history, politics, and military strategy and tactics, or who would be interested in reading about one of the most divisive conflicts in the 20th century – the Spanish Civil War.
A conflict that still stirs heated arguments in some circles even now in 2012. It should also serve as a warning to any nation, even our own, about the dangers of persistent economic stagnation, geopolitical decline caused by imperial overreach, political polarization of the electorate, partisan gridlock and the resulting breakdown of government and other vital institutions, the lack of a common identity that genuinely unifies a nation and its naturally and vastly diverse people, and finally the misguided acceptance by the general population of authoritarian or totalitarian dictatorship as the one and only path to peace, prosperity, progress and liberty.
Then they should take the time to read some of the well-documented books about the Spanish Civil War listed in the recommended reading list in the middle part of this letter. Interested readers will find these books available at the Warsaw Public Library or other libraries in the county, Amazon.com, or at their nearest bookstore.
Recommended reading list
1. The Spanish Civil War: An Illustrated Chronicle 1936-1939 (1986)
2. The Spanish Civil War (1982)
3. Spain Under Franco: A History: The Story of Spain and its People from the Rise of the Franco Dictatorship to the Present (1974)
4. The Franco Regime: 1936-1975 (1987)
5. Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany and World War II (2008)
6. Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War (2001)
7. Interlink Illustrated Histories: The Spanish Civil War (1999)
8. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-1939 (1965)
9. The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War (1991)
10. The Odyssey of the American Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (1994)
11. They Shall Not Pass: The Autobiography of La Pasionaria (1967)
12. Anarchists of Andalusia 1868-1903 (1977)
13. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain (1970)
14. Homage to Catalonia (1959)
15. The Spanish Revolution 1931-1939 (1973)
16. The Regions of Spain: A Reference Guide to History and Culture (1995)
Books that are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library
Books that are listed in the Bibliography of Interlink Illustrated Histories: The Spanish Civil War
A brief overview of this conflict based on some of those books just previously listed will follow at a later date.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg[[In-content Ad]]
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