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    The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

    June 25, 2020
    It is a hard thing to find a good book on the Spanish Civil War.  There is an oft-repeated saw that history is written by the winners, but in the case of the Spanish Civil War, that is certainly not the case.  Indeed, might be said that history is written by the whiners, and that would explain the sort of people who write history on subjects where they have an ideological ax to grind not based on the reality of the situation.  And that is certainly the case when one reads about the Spanish Civil War from those who are trying to re-fight the ideological battles of the 1930's over and over again.  Indeed, it is probably not a stretch to say that the vast majority of works on the Spanish Civil War have about as much historical worth as the Lost Cause-centered books that are often written about the American Civil War.  In both cases the losers have wanted to reverse the verdict of history and paint their opponents as being horrible and wicked and themselves as being unjustly snuffed out of existence, with nonexistent sympathy as far as I am concerned as a reader.

    This book is a bit more than 300 pages of written material and it begins with acknowledgements, a list of plates, a map of Spain, and a preface that

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    The Spanish Lay War: Reaction, Revolution lecturer Revenge

    A invigorating and full-blooded account reproduce the Romance Civil Fighting and rendering rise designate prominence outline General Franco.



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    Paul Preston

    British historian (born 1946)

    Sir Paul PrestonCBE (born 21 July 1946) is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.[1]

    Biography

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    Preston was born in 1946 in Liverpool. Preston said in an interview that he has sympathy for the Second Spanish Republic: "I came from a fairly left-wing family. You could not really be from working-class Liverpool and not be left-wing. Emotionally, in my feeling for the Republic I think there is an element of indignation about the Republic's defeat, solidarity with the losing side. Maybe that's why I support Everton, although Everton wasn't the losing side in my day."[2]

    Preston studied for his undergraduate degree at Oriel College, Oxford. He then gained an MA in European Studies at the University of Reading. He moved back to Oriel College to gain his DPhil.[3]

    From 1991 to 2020 Preston taught at the London School of Economics, where he was Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies and the founding director of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Sp