A review by anti_formalist12
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor

3.0

A really interesting book, but Beevor spends too much time focusing on battle-lines and troop dispositions. That stuff really isn't all that compelling, especially since he explains why the Nationalists were set up to win fairly early in the book. That being said, this is a compelling treatment of a truly complex topic. I guess I had never really considered that the Spanish Civil War is one of the only wars in history that was written by the losers, not the winers. Although that didn't stop tourists from sunning themselves on Franco's beaches in the 60s.