Volume 34, Number 5 · March 26, 1987
The Spanish Tragedy
By Bernard Knox
The Spanish Civil War
by Hugh Thomas
Harper and Row, 1,115 pp., $40.00
The Spanish Civil War: A History in Pictures
introduction by Raymond Carr
Norton, 192 pp., $29.95
Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War
edited by Valentine Cunningham
Oxford University Press, 388 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Voices Against Tyranny: Writing of the Spanish Civil War
with an introduction by Stephen Spender, edited by John Miller
Scribner's, 227 pp., $7.95 (paper)
The Signal Was Spain: The Spanish Aid Movement in Britain, 1936–39
by Jim Fyrth
St. Martin's, 344 pp., $32.50
Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
by Carl Geiser
Lawrence Hill, 297 pp., $12.95 (paper)
July 1986 was the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. The war began as a rebellion of the Spanish army generals against the country's democratically elected government, and ended three years later with the establishment of General Francisco Franco Bahamonde as dictator, a position he was to hold until his death in 1975.
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