'After victory we will get even with them,' Marty wrote of the Stalinists' Popular Front allies, 'all the more so since at that point we will have a strong army. How George Orwell would have loved to have been able to read the reports to Moscow of the Comintern representative André Marty, which bear out the suspicions he enunciated in Homage to Catalonia. It's all a very far cry from the wide-eyed idealism of Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie. The International Brigades even had their own concentration camp, Camp Lukacs, which held 4,000 inmates. Most soldiers did not know the extent of Stalinist penetration of their upper ranks, let alone the detailed plans to liquidate their anarchist, Trotskyist, socialist and liberal comrades-in-arms the moment that victory was won. Some battalions were left on the front line for 150 days consecutively. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.Far from being admired by the rest of the Republican army, the International Brigades were resented as foreigners and frequently used as cannon fodder to protect the lives of Spaniards. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944-1949. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include The Spanish Civil War Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. Antony Beevor The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 Paperback Illustrated, Jby Antony Beevor (Author) 695 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 10.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback from 19.75 23 Used from 20.67 15 New from 19. (Santos Juliß, El Pafs)Ībout the Author Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. This book is destined for the first rank of general histories of the Civil War.

With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences. Book Synopsis A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. Somewhere in The Battle for Spain, Anthony Beevor remarks that the Spanish Civil War may be the only conflict in history to have had its history written by the.

The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor