The Spanish Holocaust
Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-century Spain
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: xx, 700 pages ; 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Political persecution -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Political atrocities -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Atrocities.
Spain -- History -- 1939-1975.
Political persecution -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Political atrocities -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Atrocities.
Spain -- History -- 1939-1975.
ISBN:
9780393345919
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Europe Pre | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
"Published in Great Britain in 2012 by HarperPress"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.