Spanish Tragedy: The Civil War In Perspective - Softcover

Carr, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842122037 ISBN 13: 9781842122037

Publisher: W&N, 2000

Synopsis

Raymond Carr's succinct and elegant volume is recognised as the classic account of the war, 'brother against brother', which established the Franco regime in Spain. Carr focuses on the disparities in Spanish society, between classes and the regions, and within these between centralists and separatists. He exposes the pitiful weaknesses of the political parties, which enabled Franco, 'the iron surgeon', to overthrow Catalan separatists and proletarian socialists alike. It was a war in which the riven country of Spain became the battleground of international forces, a war which aroused the fiercest political passions, and which became the vicious preliminary skirmish in the great clash of ideologies fought out in World War Two.

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About the Author:

Born, 1919 and educated at Brockenhurst School and Christ Church College, Oxford, where he gained his D.Litt.. Fellow of All Souls College and of New College, and in 1967-68 was Oxford University Professor of the History of Latin America. From 1968-87 he was Warden of St Anthony's College, Oxford. He has also taught at Boston University, and is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University. The recipient of decorations from the Spanish and Portuguese governments, he was knighted in 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1842122037
• ISBN 13: 9781842122037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336