Helen Graham’s The War and Its Shadow

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Clarissa

January 30, 2014

The best new book on the Spanish Civil War I have read recently is Helen Graham’s The War and Its Shadow. It will be of interest both to those who know absolutely nothing about the war and those who know a lot.

Here is a great review of the book by Richard Baxtell.

I’m really afraid people will start picking up the widely reviewed and advertised book by Treglown, and that will be a horrible mistake.

Helen Graham is a great historian. I’d even say, a Great Historian.

And another absolutely phenomenal historian is Michael Richards whose new book on the Spanish Civil war I haven’t read yet. My most recent article’s bibliography reads like a tribute to Richards. Well, it isn’t my fault that everything he says is so insightful.

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One response to “Helen Graham’s The War and Its Shadow”

NancyP

January 30, 2014

Trelown is not in the top ten in the Amazon Books search “Spanish Civil War”. Helen Graham is, for the Oxford UP series “very short introduction” book on the Spanish Civil War. There’s one interesting Amazon review phenomenon on books about the Spanish Civil War – an unusually high percentage of “ones”. It turns out that the “ones” are conservative/traditionalist types who complain about bias.

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