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The Spanish Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War, 1936

By José E. Alvarez

Book information

Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Year
2016
ISBN
0826220835, 9780826220837
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3043957 bytes)
Pages
307\0
Topic
History
Time added
2020-11-22 23:51:52

Description

In 1936, the Spanish Foreign Legion was the most well equipped, thoroughly trained, and battle tested unit in the Spanish Army. With its fearsome reputation for brutality and savagery, the Legion was not only critical to the eventual victory of Franco and the Nationalists,but was also a powerful propaganda tool the Nationalists used to intimidate and terrorize its enemies. Drawing upon Spanish military archival sources, the Legion’s own diary of operations and relevant secondary sources, Alvarez recounts the pivotal role played by the Spanish Foreign Legion in the initial months of the Spanish Civil War, a war that was not only between Spaniards, but that pitted the political ideology of Communism and Socialism against that of Fascism and Nazism.

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