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Boondock Saint posted:Are there any books someone can recommend that are good primers on The fall of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War? Antony Beevor wrote a reasonable introduction to the Spanish Civil War: http://www.amazon.com/The-Battle-Spain-Spanish-1936-1939/dp/014303765X It was pretty well received in Spanish circles largely because it was largely viewed as one of the genuinely successful/balanced accounts made by an outsider. There might be better general histories out there, try looking for a concise history. For American/foreign involvement on the side of the Spanish Republic, I would recommend the following http://www.amazon.com/The-Odyssey-Abraham-Lincoln-Brigade/dp/0804722773/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335932302&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.com/Comrades-And-Commissars-Lincoln-Battalion/dp/0271029102/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335932302&sr=1-2 These are pretty excellent books on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the few hundred American volunteers who joined up (they were largely communists and socialists) to fight Franco. If you feel really ambitious, you can take a crack at The Spanish Republic At War 1936-1939 that is very much a heavy academic work, but examines very well (as far as I've read thus far) the difficulties the Second Republic had in the 1930s before the military rebellion. http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item1145241/?site_locale=en_US
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To Lose a Battle by Alistair Horne is a pretty comprehensive, if old fashioned (concentrates a LOT on the 1940 campaign for the second half, obviously, but the first half is fantastic) discussion of the fall of France. I'd also recommend his book on the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War (Fall of Paris) and his examination of 1917 Verdun (The Price of Glory) Essentially, they make up his "triumvirate" of modern French histories. Problem is he was writing these in the 1960s so he wasn't quite far enough away from Vichy to fully analyze it.
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