num_pages: 1120
description: Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today.What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why did the Republican cause collapse so violently? Now revised and updated, Hugh Thomas's classic account presents the most objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake - and which was as much an international war as a Spanish one.
language: English
title: The Spanish Civil War
titlecomplete: The Spanish Civil War
genres: 20th Century, Spanish History, History, Military History, Spain, War, European History, Politics, Nonfiction, Spanish Civil War
ratings_count: 1250
places: Spain
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd