A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama. Not only did it pit countryman a gainst countryman, and neighbor against neighbor, but from 1936-39 this bitterly contended struggle sucked in competing and seemingl y atavistic forces that were soon to rage across the face of Europe, and then the rest of the world: nationalism and republicanism/ communism and fascism/ anarchism and monarchism/ anti-clerical reformism and aristocratic Catholic conservatism...