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Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain by Paul Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution. It is the previously unto ...Show more
Defence of Madrid by Geoffrey Cox; Paul Preston (Foreword by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Goodies and baddies take some sorting out in this tale of the siege of Madrid by Franco's right-wing forces supported by the Nazis and the fascist regime of Mussolini (the 'rebels'), against the civilian population and its government representatives, just elected, who happened to be left-wing. Once sort ...Show more
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge by Paul Preston
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco. No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigu ...Show more
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain. The culmination of more than a decade of research, 'The Spanish Holocaust' seeks to reflect the intense horrors visited upon Spain during its fero ...Show more
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