The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War… by Antony Beevor · Audiobook preview

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Authored by Antony Beevor
Narrated by Sean Barrett

#antonybeevor #thebattleforspainthespanishcivilwar19361939

—
GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS

Find your next great read with Google Play Books.

Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you.

—
BOOK DESCRIPTION

The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica.

Antony Beevor's account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

Read by Sean Barrett

(p) 2011 Isis Publishing Ltd

—
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Antony Beevor's books, include Stalingrad, Berlin, D-Day, The Battle for Spain and the Second World War. His work, which has received major prizes in this country and abroad, has appeared in thirty-three languages and sold more than eight and a half million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, he has received honorary doctorates and fellowships from five universities. He was knighted in 2017.

Sean Barrett has narrated many television documentaries for the BBC and Discovery Channel, notably THE PEOPLE'S CENTURY, WALKING WITH BEASTS, and GREAT LIVES. As a member of the BBC Radio Rep, he has appeared in hundreds of radio plays, and played Father Gillespie in the BBC Worldservice / BBC7 serial WESTWAY throughout its eight year-run. As a film and television actor he has appeared in pieces as diverse as TWELFTH NIGHT and FATHER TED, and he is a doyen of audiobook reading, with acclaimed recordings…

—
AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published on: November 17, 2011
ISBN: 9781409143956
Duration: 18 hr, 48 min
Genres: History / Europe / Spain, History / Modern / 20th Century / General, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General