The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

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The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave laborers His enemies, however, met less exalted fates Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945, and as many again became non persons As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be given of the Spanish Holocaust ranging from judicial murders to the abuse of women and children The story of the victims of Franco s reign of terror is framed by the activities of four key men General Mola, Quiepo de Llano, Major Vallejo Najera, and Captain Don Gonzalo Aguilera whose dogma of eugenics, terrorization, domination, and mind control horrifyingly mirror the fascism of Italy and Germany.Evoking such classics as Gulag and The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds crucial light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. New Read eBook The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain by Paul Preston – kino-fada.fr The Spanish Holocaust Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth Century Spain, by Paul Preston, is a blow by blow account of the atrocities commuted by both rebel and Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War in the mid 1930 s The book starts off chronicling early unrest pre Civil War, where fascist monarchist elements on one hand, and anarcho communists on the other, assassinated journalists, politicians and others that were opposed to their cause Fascist elements in the Spanish Army The Spanish Holocaust Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth Century Spain, by Paul Preston, is a blow by blow account of the atrocities commuted by both rebel and Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War in the mid 1930 s The book starts off chronicling early unrest pre Civil War, where fascist monarchist elements on one hand, and anarcho communists on the other, assassinated journalists, politicians and others that w...I m afraid I gave up on this The reason It s just the writing style It is so dense and hard to get around and get a good bite at it And believe me I really wanted to read this book Having read Blood of Spain and Beevor s book on the Spanish Civil War I felt ready for this But it s just not written in a reader friendly way It s just one after one after one incident its 120 pages till you get up to the coup I thought the style might change after that but it doesn t if anything it I m afraid I gave up on this The reason It s just the writing style It is so dense and hard to get around and get a good bite at it And believe me I really wanted to read this book Having read Blood of Spain and Beevor s book on the Spanish Civil War I felt ready for this But it s just not written in a reader friendly way It s just one after one after one incident its 120 pages till you get up to the coup I thought the style might change after that but it doesn t if anything it gets even harder to read as the atrocity level and torture mounts up.I m sure it is a superbly researched book but I m afraid I just don t have the stamina for this right now and I ve been reading it since it was published in the UK.So for now I...The author of this 700 page history of the Spanish civil war is the foremost scholar of Spanish history in the U.K This book is not easy reading, inthan one sense First, the writing is dense and chapters go on and on forever in unrelieved narrative for 40 50 pages My eyes simply got tired readingthan 15 pages in a sitting The editors at Harper should have advised him to make his text a bitreadable Second, the book presumes that the reader knows as much about Spanish The author of this 700 page history of the Spanish civil war is the foremost scholar of Spanish history in the U.K This book is not easy reading, inthan one sense First, the writing is dense and chapters go on and on forever in unrelieved narrative for 40 50 pages My eyes simply got tired readingthan 15 pages in a sitting The editors at Harper should have advised him to make his text a bitreadable Second, the book presumes that the reader knows as much about Spanish history as Preston, so he fails to explain many contextual matters and issues e.g difference between the various guards , while at the same time peppering us with a blizzard of names and places that begin to blur Third, the horrific circumstances in which many people, mostly civilians, died at the hands of Franco supporters, after suffering humiliation and tortu...If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered To fight against Fascism, and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered Common decency George OrwellI ve read one other book on the Spanish Civil War, aptly named Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas I found that book to be heavily favoured toward the centrist point of view, almost to a fault Paul Preston seems to be very clearly anti fascist but I couldn t read where his perspective was If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered To fight against Fascism, and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered Common decency George OrwellI ve read one other book on the Spanish Civil War, aptly named Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas I found that book to be heavily favoured toward the centrist point of view, almost to a fault Paul Preston seems to be very clearly anti fascist but I couldn t read where his perspective was outside of that which I preferred to Thomas s approach What Thomas failed on that I think Preston picked up on that being a reactionary is not about believing in a particular solution, but a ...As soon as I saw this book, I knew I had to read it I lived in Spain for over 20 years I knew it was going to be a harrowing read it was distressing and horrific in places At times you were reading a list of assassinations and atrocities making it difficult to follow Perhaps a list of important people on both sides at the beginning could have made it easier to refer back too Man s inhumanity to man is a terrible indictment on the human race especially when done in t...For my entire life I ve been hearing so many things about the Civil War in my country, until I reached a point where people of extremely opposite social positions were saying the same stupidities.Then I realised I had to find out myself what really happened not only in the years 1936 1939, but also during the 40 years later and what means to Spain right today.I started with Hugh Thomas s Civil War, watched Mem ria i Oblit d Una Guerra series of documentaries focused on the place I live For my entire life I ve been hearing so many things about the Civil War in my country, until I reached a point where people of extremely opposite social positions were saying the same stupidities.Then I realised I had to find out myself what really happened not only in the years 1936 1939, but also during the 40 years later and what means to Spain right today.I started with Hugh Thomas s Civil War, watched Mem ria i Oblit d Una Guerra series of documentaries focused on the place I live Mallorca, Balearic Islands And then I found this book, and I saw the Horror And yes, Conrad, your Heart of Darkness can t be compared at all to the real horror you find in these pages.I thought I had to read to know what happened, now I know what really happened is so dark, so apocalyptic, so unfa...A terrible reading, but one which is due for any decent Spaniard Preston tells with a lot of precision and a readable style all the atrocities committed during and after the civil war The distinction between the killings in the loyalist or Republican zone and the systematic war of extermination on the rebel, Fascist side is crystal clear Difficult to read for any sensitive person, but a well needed exercise not to ever forget the atrocities planned and carried out by a confederacy of A terrible reading, but one which is due for any decent Spaniard Preston tells with a lot of precision and a readable style all the atrocities committed during and after the civil war The distinction between the killings in the ...Incredibly depressing tale of the brutality of the Spanish Civil War Worth reading for a reminder of man s inhumanity to man as well as the tragedy of those courageous enough to stand up to blind class hatred and warped beliefs.This book, the dubiously named The Spanish Holocaust, analyzes through a hard Left lens the killings of the Spanish Civil War Unlike Preston s magnum opus, his 1993 biography of Franco, which while biased is a classic work worth reading, this book is a work of unhinged propaganda, designed to whitewash and excuse all Republican killing, and to magnify the horror of all Nationalist killing It is pure propaganda, and a pack of lies, by commission and omission.Words such as savage and This book, the dubiously named The Spanish Holocaust, analyzes through a hard Left lens the killings of the Spanish Civil War Unlike Preston s mag...This is an extremely painful book to read However, it is a book that needs to be read in order to understand the scale of the cruelty that occurred during the war and for many years after It is a chilling read for anyone who has ever been a member of a trade union, a freethinker, a democrat or married to one It helps explain the years of silence and indeed the fragility of democracy in the post Franco era It will leave a mark on you as I am sure the recording and the writing of it must have This is an extremely painful book to read However, it is a book that needs to be read in order to understand the scale of the cruelty that occurred during the war and for many years after It is a chilling read for anyone who has ever been...

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
  • English
  • 19 June 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 720 pages
  • 039306476X
  • Paul Preston
  • The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain