The Spanish tragedy : the Civil War in perspective / Raymond Carr.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 312-322.

1. The spain of the ancien regime --
2. The fall of the monarchy --
3. The second republic 1931-6 --
4. The popular front in power --
5. The conspiracy and the rising --
6. The summer revolution --
7. The counter-revolution
8. The organization of war --
9. The war: july 1936-march 1937
10. The crisis of government --
11. The tip of the balance --
12. The government of victory: teruel and the aragon breakthrough --
13. The new state --
14. The last lap: the battle of the ebro --
15. The international commitment --
16. The end: catalonia and the last days of madrid.

RAYMOND CARR's succinct and elegant volume is recog- nized as the classic account of the bloody war, 'brother against brother', which established the Franco regime in Spain. Carr focuses on the disparities in Spanish society, between the classes and the regions, and within these between centralists and separatists. He exposes the pitiful weaknesses of the political parties, which enabled Franco, "the iron surgeon', to overthrow Catalan separatists and proletarian socialists alike. It was a war in which the riven country of Spain became the battleground of international forces, a war which aroused the fiercest political passions, and which became the vicious preliminary skirmish in the great clash of ideologies fought out in World War Two.