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La Guerra Civil espaiola / The Spanish Civil War

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Considerada una obra maestra que arroja luz sobre una de las guerras más confusas del siglo XX.

De una forma brillante y con detalles conmovedores, Hugh Thomas analiza este devastador conflicto en el que las esperanzas, los sueños y las creencias de este siglo estallaron en el campo de batalla.
La Guerra Civil refleja, como si de un microcosmos se tratara, las tensiones que llevaron a Europa a la Guerra Mundial: de la puesta en juego de las maquinaciones de Franco y Hitler, a la tragedia de Guernica y la caída de aquellos que creían en la democracia.

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A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century.

Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times) has been given a fresh face forty years after its initial publication in 1961.

In brilliant, moving detail, Thomas analyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, and dogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no other account, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles the events that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink of world war, to divide against itself, bringing into play the machinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, and the deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side of democracy.

Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats -- the various forces of the Spanish Civil War composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and Thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history.

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Hugh Thomas (1931-2017) nació en Windsor, Inglaterra, en 1931. Estudió en Sherborne School, Queen's College, en Cambridge y en la Sorbona de París. Trabajó en la Cancillería de 1954 a 1957 y para el Subcomité de Desarme de la ONU por el Reino Unido. Destacado estudioso de la historia, ha sido catedrático en la Universidad de Reading de 1966 a 1976, en la Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies de 1973 a 1976, en el Centre for Policy Studies de Londres de 1979 a 1991, en la Universidad de Nueva York de la cátedra Rey Juan Carlos I de civilización española en 1995 y en la Universidad de Boston en 1996. Allí, desde 1997, cumple su labor docente como profesor universitario. Es miembro correspondiente de la Real Academia de la Historia de Madrid y de la Royal Historical Society de Londres. Ha recibido importantes premios y distinciones, como el premio Somerset Maugham 1962, el Arts Council National Book Award de 1980, la Orden de Isabel la Católica en 1986 y la Orden del Águila Azteca en 1995. Entre sus obras destacan La guerra civil española, La historia inacabada del mundo y Cuba. La lucha por la libertad.

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Considerada una obra maestra que arroja luz sobre una de las guerras más confusas del siglo XX.

De una forma brillante y con detalles conmovedores, Hugh Thomas analiza este devastador conflicto en el que las esperanzas, los sueños y las creencias de este siglo estallaron en el campo de batalla.La Guerra Civil refleja, como si de un microcosmos se tratara, las tensiones que llevaron a Europa a la Guerra Mundial: de la puesta en juego de las maquinaciones de Franco y Hitler, a la tragedia de Guernica y la caída de aquellos que creían en la democracia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century.
Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times) has been given a fresh face forty years after its initial publication in 1961.
In brilliant, moving detail, Thomas analyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, and dogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no other account, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles the events that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink of world war, to divide against itself, bringing into play the machinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, and the deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side of democracy.
Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats -- the various forces of the Spanish Civil War composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and Thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history.

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«Un narrador supremo, dotado de una capacidad sobresaliente para la descripción.».-John Elliott

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"Un narrador supremo, dotado de una capacidad sobresaliente para la descripción.".-John Elliott

Product details

Authors Hugh Thomas
Publisher Penguin Random House Espagnol
 
Languages Spanish
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2019
 
EAN 9788466344692
ISBN 978-84-663-4469-2
No. of pages 1184
Dimensions 141 mm x 216 mm x 52 mm
Series Debolsillo Ensayo
Debolsillo Ensayo
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)

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