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The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

Door Paul Preston

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#400132-VD43
Titel
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Auteur
Preston, Paul
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : HarperCollins Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
0002556340
ISBN13
9780002556347
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original grey boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous photographs in b/w, maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.
Selected as the Sunday Times History 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 ferocious civil war, the consequences of which still reverberate bitterly today.
The brutal, murderous persecution of Spaniards between 1936 and 1945 is a truth that should have been told long ago. Paul Preston here offers the first comprehensive picture of what he terms “the Spanish Holocaust”: mass extra-judicial murder of some 200,000 vi... (Lees verder)ctims, cursory military trials, torture, the systematic abuse of women and children, sweeping imprisonment, the horrors of exile. Those culpable for crimes committed on both sides of the Civil War are named; their victims identified.
'The Spanish Holocaust' illuminates one of the darkest, least-known eras of modern European history.
Pagina's
700
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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