Batallas decisivas de la Guerra Civil

The fratricidal struggle that divided the lives of our ancestors between 1936 and 1939 began as yet another coup d'état, another of many that dotted Spain in the 19th century, but which immediately acquired the tremendous bill of a war. The international factors and the foreign collaboration that made the Francoist uprising stand out from the previous ones were not unrelated to this: the Italian and German aid to the national side and the aid of the International Brigades and the USSR to the legal government. This external interference decisively influenced the development of the conflict and its outcome; among other factors because it was here, on Spanish soil or in its skies, where combat tactics and techniques, cannons, rifles, armored vehicles, planes, political and propaganda strategies that would lead the Second World War were rehearsed. Suddenly, Spain acquired relevance in the international forum and places as unknown as Brunete appeared on the map, where the fiercest clash of the entire war took place; the Jarama, the key battle for the siege of Madrid, or the Ebro, the longest and bloodiest confrontation of the war and the definitive swan song of Republican Spain. In this work, written by great experts in the field, the reader will relive each one of the decisive confrontations of the contest and will be able to understand the specific weight they had in the failure and victory of one and the other and the essayistic laboratory that they supposed to the Second World War.