- Histoire, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, History, Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939
A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's *The Spanish Civil War* remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century.
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Earnest, grave, epic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Hugh Thomas
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 910
- Publisher
- Ruedo Ibérico, Hamish Hamilton, H. Hamilton
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- French, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9788466344692
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Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (21 October 1931 – 7 May 2017) was an English historian and writer, best known for his book *The Spanish Civil War*.
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