In this revised edition of A Short History of the Spanish Civil

War, Julián Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish

Civil War.

Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book charts

the most significant events and battles alongside the main

players in the tragedy. Casanova provides answers to some

of the pressing questions (such as the roots and extent of

anticlerical violence) that have been asked in the 70 years

that have passed since the painful defeat of the Second

Republic. Now with a revised introduction, Casanova offers

an overview of recent historiographical shifts; not least the

wielding of the conflict to political ends in certain strands

of contemporary historiography towards an alarming neo-

Francoist revisionism. It is the ideal introduction to the

Spanish Civil War.