Franco and the Spanish Civil War - Book List

As Helen Graham points out, the literature on the Spanish Civil War is on a par with that of the Second World War in its immensity. Therefore, I have confined this book list to items I have found useful and which are (hopefully) reasonably easy to obtain in libraries and bookshops. I hope we will be able to discuss the literature of the civil war during the course.

Essential

Graham, H. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Preston, P. A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
London: Fontana, 1996.

Background

Baxell, R. British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War - 2nd Ed.
Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, 2003.

Beevor, A. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936 - 1939
London: Phoenix, 2006.

Blinkhorn, M. Carlism and Crisis in Spain 1931 - 1939
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Brendon, P. The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s
London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
(Chapters 15 & 16).

Carr, R. Civil War in Spain 1936 - 39
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1986.

Carr, R. Images of the Spanish Civil War
London: Allen & Unwin, 1986.

Carr, R. Modern Spain 1875 - 1980
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Carr, R. The Spanish Tragedy: The Civil War in Perspective
London: Phoenix, 2000.

Cunningham, V. (Ed) The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980.

Ellwood, S.M. Franco
London: Longman, 1993.

Graham, H. The Spanish Republic at War 1936 - 1939
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Grugel, J. Franco's Spain
London: Arnold, 2002.

Hemingway, E. For Whom the Bell Tolls
London: Vintage, 1999.
(This is the edition I have on my shelves, any edition is acceptable)

Kemp, P. Mine Were of Trouble
London: Cassell, 1957.
(A memoir of his time spent fighting for the Nationalists in the Spanish Foreign Legion).

Keene, J. Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War
London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.

Koestler, A. Spanish Testament
London: Victor Gollancz, 1937.

Orwell, G. Homage to Catalonia
London: Penguin Books, 2000.
(This is the edition I have on my shelves, any edition is acceptable)

Othen, C. Franco's International Brigades: Foreign Volunteers and Fascist Dictators in the Spanish Civil War
London: Reportage Press, 2008.

Payne, S.G. Fascism in Spain 1923 - 1977
Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Payne, S.G. The Franco Regime 1936 - 1975.
London: Phoenix, 2000.

Preston, P. Franco: A Biography
London: Fontana, 1995.

Preston, P. The Coming of the Spanish Civil War: Reform, Reaction and Revolution in the Second Republic
London: Routledge, 1994.

Preston, P. The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in Twentieth-Century Spain
London: Routledge, 1995.

Preston, P. The Spanish Civil War: Dreams + Nightmares
London: Imperial War Museum, 2001.

Raguer, H. The Catholic Church and the Spanish Civil War
London: Routledge, 2006.

Scurr, J. Germany's Spanish Volunteers 1941 - 45: The Blue Division in Russia
London: Osprey, 1980.

Stradling, R.A. History and Legend: Writing the International Brigades
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.

Websites

The website of the International Brigade Memorial Trust

The website of the Asociacion para la Recuperacion de la Memoria Historica (Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory), a Spanish organization which collects oral and written testimonies concerning the victims of the Franco regime and excavates and identifies bodies from mass graves.

The website of the modern Falange party.

The website the 'Carlists Traditional Communion' founded in 1986 from the remains of post-Francoist Carlism.

The official website of the Royal Household of HM King Juan Carlos.

There are many other websites available, of varying quality, providing information on the civil war and the principal personalities involved.

Andrew Lacey
July 2010

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