The Spanish holocaust : inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain / Paul Preston.

Author/creator Preston, Paul, 1946-
Format Book
Edition1st American ed.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Descriptionxx, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012002560
ISBN9780393064766 (hardcover)
ISBN039306476X (hardcover)

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Joyner General Stacks DP269.55 .P77 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold