A brilliant new portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of
Spain. 'Anyone interested in Spain will want this book.' Alan Massie, Daily Tel
egraph A bravura new interpretation of the course, causes and characters of the
Spanish Civil War, still the twentieth century's bloodiest internal conflict. An
alysis of the Civil War has always focused on victors and vanquished, but what o
f those who eschewed the struggle, those who stood apart from the carnage and ch
aos? Was there a Third Way? Starting at the extreme right of the political spect
rum and moving across it to the extreme left, using the emblematic lives of ten
key individuals, Preston builds up an astonishingly vivid picture of how the War
came to pass, and how those who started, suffered and stopped it were coloured
by the experience.
