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The Spanish holocaust : inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain

Paul Preston (Author)
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain
Print Book, English, 2012
1st American ed View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2012
History
xx, 700 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780393064766, 039306476X
771939697
pt. 1: The origins of hatred and violence. Social war begins, 1931-1933 ; Theorists of extermination ; The right goes on the offensive, 1933-1934 ; The coming of war, 1934-1936
pt. 2: Institutionalized violence in the rebel zone. Queipo's terror : the purging of the South ; Mola's terror : the purging of Navarre, Galicia, Castile and León
pt. 3: The consequence of the coup : spontaneous violence in the Republican zone. Far from the front : repression behind the Republican lines ; Revolutionary terror in Madrid
pt. 4: Madrid besieged : the threat and the response. The Column of Death's march on Madrid ; A terrified city responds : the massacres of Paracuellos
pt. 5: Two concepts of war. Defending the Republic from the enemy within ; Franco's slow war of annihilation
pt. 6: Franco's investment in terror. No reconciliation : trials, executions, prisons
Epilogue: The reverberations
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