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It is very easy to read and you hardly feel like you are reading history at all. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the spanish civil war. The movement itself would refer to itself as federalist or syndicalist, and certainly the purist would say that the use of the word anarchist tout court is always wrong where spain is concerned. Much has been written about the spanish civil war but the contribution of the anarchists has been either totally ignored or reduced to a few footnotes which were often composed of blatant lies or generalised slander referring to wreckers. Publication date 2001 topics spain history civil war, 19361939. Hugh thomas, a historian who wrote sweeping accounts of rebellion, conquest and struggle, particularly about parts of the world touched by the spanish empire, and who was an adviser to british. Lee the spanish civil war revised edition por hugh thomas disponible en rakuten kobo. Ukonczyl queens college na uniwersytecie cambridge.