The Spanish Civil War - Opening

INTRODUCTION

A Spanish proverb says that history is a common
meadow in which everyone can make hay. It is particularly
appropriate for a civil war which became the subject
of such international propaganda at a time when the
regimes of Hitler and Stalin were consolidating themselves.
These two extremes which yet had so much in common,
exploited their enmity shamelessly. Their apparently
implacable antipathy created artificial alternatives
through gross simplification.

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

ANTONY BEEVOR
ORBIS PUBLISHING
LONDON

PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The publishers would like to thank Editorial Planeta S.A., Barcelona, and Editions
Ruedo Iberico, Paris, for supplying most of the illustrations for this book. Other
illustrations were kindly provided by the following sources: Associated Press,
Bundesarchiv, Rene Dazy, Mary Evans Picture Library, Robert Hunt Library,
Illustrated London News Picture Library, Imperial War Museum, John Topham
Picture Library, Roger Viollet.

1982 by Antony Beevor
First published in Great Britain by
Orbis Publishing Limited, London 1982

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