The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Antony Beevor

Nov 2015 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Sean Barrett

About this audiobook

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge and D-Day

Revised to mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War’s outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources,
this brisk and accessible book (Spain’s #1 bestseller for twelve weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war—its causes, course, and consequences.

"This book is destined for the first rank of general histories of the [Spanish] Civil War."—Santos Juliß, El Pafs

Ratings and reviews

Great book with so much detail

About the author

British historian Antony Beevor was born on December 14, 1946. He was educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst and studied under the well-known World War Two historian, John Keegan. Beevor was an officer with the 11th Hussars for five years before becoming a writer. His works have received awards including the Runciman Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. The French government made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1997, and in 2008 the president of Estonia awarded him the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana. In 1999 Beevor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum and Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with his title Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble.