Comintern Army: The International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

When Spain exploded into civil war in July 1936, a conflict whose roots were deep in the Spanish past became the arena for the violent political passions that divided Europe north of the Pyrenees. Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union intervened actively in the war, using Spain as a testing ground for their military equipment and techniques and their political ideologies. In this first in-depth study of the politics of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, R. Dan Richardson views

Author: R. Dan Richardson
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780813154466

About the Author

R. Dan Richardson is associate professor of history at Roanoke College.

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