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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, Paul, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political atrocities.

History.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Atrocities.

Spain.

Atrocities.

Political persecution--Spain--History--20th century.

Political persecution.

Political atrocities--Spain--History--20th century.

Spain--History--1939-1975.

Physical Description:

xx, 700 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780393064766

039306476X

OCLC:

771939697