On July 17, 1936, a failed military coup in Spanish Morocco split a nation in two. What followed was not a footnote to World War II. It was the war's opening act, fought three years early on Spanish soil, with German bombers, Soviet tanks, and half a million lives.
The Spanish Civil War is the sweeping, meticulously researched account of how a domestic argument over land, faith, and regional identity became the twentieth century's first great proxy war between fascism and communism, and why the world's democracies chose to look away while it happened. You will meet Francisco Franco, the cautious provincial general who out-waited and outmaneuvered every rival to become Europe's longest-surviving dictator. You will follow the tens of thousands of volunteers, poets, dockworkers, and doctors among them, who crossed oceans to join the International Brigades because they believed Spain was the last place fascism could still be stopped. You will stand in the market square of Guernica on the afternoon the Condor Legion arrived, and you will watch Pablo Picasso, an ocean away in Paris, turn a newspaper dispatch into the twentieth century's most devastating anti-war painting. This is a book that refuses easy answers. It shows how Stalin's gold bought influence, not solidarity. How Britain and France's policy of "non-intervention" armed one side while starving the other. How a war fought by Spaniards, over Spanish questions, became the rehearsal ground for the Blitzkrieg tactics, terror bombing, and totalitarian machinery that would consume the rest of Europe within months of the guns falling silent in Madrid. Fascism, Communism, and the Dress Rehearsal for World War II delivers: The full military campaign, from the airlift across the Strait of Gibraltar to the horror of the Ebro, told with narrative pace and real casualty data drawn from the best modern scholarship. The hidden diplomatic war, in which Chamberlain, Blum, and Stalin each calculated what Spain was worth, and decided it wasn't worth much. The human cost, in the words and fates of the ordinary Spaniards, foreign volunteers, and exiled writers who lived, fought, and died inside history's rehearsal for catastrophe. The unfinished reckoning, tracing Franco's thirty-six years of rule, the "pact of forgetting," and Spain's still-contested effort to exhume its own past, literally, from unmarked graves. Written for readers who devoured The Guns of August, Guernica by Antony Beevor, or Homage to Catalonia, but want a single volume that connects Spain's war to everything that came after it, this is narrative history built to be finished in a day and remembered for years. Spain paid the price of Europe's rehearsal first, and paid it alone. This is the book that finally tells you why.外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
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