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The Tragedy of the Civil War: Massacres on the Home Front in the Spanish Civil War

(uk) Paul Preston

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This book is carefully created by the author based on more than ten years of research results, aiming to reveal the horrific experiences of the Spanish people in their fierce civil war from 1936 to 1945. The horrific events described in the book took place behind the battlefield, in what the author calls the "Spanish Massacre." They have previously escaped the attention of historians, but now the author provides us with the first comprehensive picture: mass extrajudicial murder of some 200,000 victims, summary trials, torture, systematic abuse of women and children, mass incarceration, and horrific exiles. Those responsible for the horrors were named and the victims identified. This was a dark period in modern European history, and the scars it caused are still felt in Spain today.