Images of the Spanish Civil War

Description

This book is a visual record of the tragedy of the Spanish Civil Ear, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of fighting in 1936, and comprises a wide variety of dramatic pictorial material, both black-and-white and colour, some of which has rarely or never been reproduced before. It follows, with the help of chronologies, the main course of events in Spain from 1936 to the crushing disillusionment of the Republican defeat in 1939, focussing in on particular aspects of the war. The international nature of the conflict, discussed by Raymond Carr in his introduction, is especially featured, and the book includes unfamiliar material from the archives of the International Brigades among photographs, posters, propaganda material and ephemera of all kinds from sources inside and outside Spain. Together, the images portray the military, political and social history of the war, but they also evoke a sense of the war, but they also evoke a sens of the idealistic zeal and extraordinary creative energy of the period.

First Sentence

It is not surprising that, fifty years after its outbreak, the Civil War is remembered in Spain not merely for the horrors of the war itself but because it inflicted a deep and long-lasting wound on Spanish society.

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Other Editions

• Images of the Spanish Civil WarHarperCollins Publishers Ltd1986-01-01
• Imagenes De La Guerra Civil EspañolaHardcoverEdhasa1986-01-01
• The Spanish Civil WarNorton1986-01-01
• Images of the Spanish Civil WarHardcoverAllen & Unwin1986-01-01
• The Spanish Civil WarNorton1986-01-01
• Images of the Spanish Civil WarPaperbackUnwin Health1987-09-24