The Spanish holocaust : inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain / Paul Preston.
| Author/creator | Preston, Paul, 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st American ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012. |
| Description | xx, 700 pages 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012002560 |
| ISBN | 9780393064766 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 039306476X (hardcover) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | DP269.55 .P77 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |