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I think you and I are going to have a serious clash once I'm done with my current read. Legolas Send a noteboard - 12/05/2013 07:03:56 PM

View original postI am comforted by the fact that the book ends well (Nationalist victory). I also have that History of Western Music, I want to start the Chanson de Roland, I have a book on German Foreign Policy 1933-1939 (Die Außenpolitik des Dritten Reichs, a somewhat unimaginative name), and two books on Italian history of the period (Il fascismo degli Italiani, L'Italia della Disfatta), and I might still try to finish Procopius. I was also going to read For Whom the Bell Tolls after the history of the Spanish Civil War - it seems like a good idea. I still don't know in what order I'll read what.

My current read is Paul Preston's "The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain".

Judging by your comments after your read, I'm not sure whether this book takes a very different tack from the one that you read - it might just be you and me having different sympathies. Though I have to say, I'm reading this book with your comments in the back of my head and with a critical eye towards any pro-Republican bias - and while that bias is clearly there, so far I'm inclined to say the naked facts alone make it quite hard to side with Franco. But then I'm not very far yet (1933, still in the lead-up) and as I recall there are some leftist atrocities coming up still before the rebellion breaks out.

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