
01 Dec 2008, 20:20
I am very interested in the Spanish civil war, and therefore I would like to know, if anyone could recommend me any book about that topic.
I am not really looking for scientific books about socialism, but rather something about the military and the war itself (Antony Beevor?) that is not to hard to read.
And I'd also like to see some kinda stories like from the view of a soldier.
Would be nice If somebody could recommend me something and describe it a little bit.

02 Dec 2008, 15:40
Sounds good. Thanks for the link Fallen Raptor!

05 Dec 2008, 12:01
Thanks comrades. I just started reading Orwell, his book is very exciting to read.

25 Mar 2009, 04:36
If you want to read pro-communist stuff on the Spanish Civil War in English, I recommend Arthur Landis' Spain! The Unfinished Revolution and They Shall Not Pass: The Autobiography of La Pasionaria. Landis was a historian who actually fought in the battle of Madrid as a part of the International Brigades.
If you want to read very objective and highly scholarly stuff (that also happens to make the communists look good), I would recommend Helen Graham's The Spanish Republic at War: 1936-39. Graham tries very hard to be objective, and when you do that, you can't help but shred through the anarchist/Trot myths. Graham goes so far as not to even include Orwell's bullshit in her bibliography.

25 Mar 2009, 15:43
In many ways, the anarchists in Spain before the War were the better forces on the Left. For instance, the socialists (under the leadership of Francisco Largo Caballero) supported the dictatorship of the Primo de Rivera, while the anarchists bitterly opposed it. Even Lenin generally thought the Second International Marxists were worse than anarchists, and I think Spain is a good example of that.

28 Feb 2017, 10:09
Highly recommend Steve Nelsons THE VOLUNTEERS.
By an American Red who fought in the main front around Madrid.
Much more truthful book then Orwell's CATALONIA.