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From Civil War to Global Conflict: Spain's Prelude to World War II

From Civil War to Global Conflict: Spain's Prelude to World War II - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Luca RomanoSeries:Echoes of War: The WWIIPublish date:11/5/2025Pages:178
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Vij BooksISBN-13:9789390349210ISBN-10:9390349214UPC:9789390349210Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, World, International RelationsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.245Product ID:SC9SNJ28GR

A republic fractures. Foreign bombers circle. Cabinets in distant capitals choose to watch-and teach aggressors exactly how far they can go. This book exposes the Spanish Civil War as the prelude to World War II, a live laboratory where dictators refined airpower, armour, and propaganda while the West rehearsed appeasement under the banner of non intervention. It is for readers who want more than story: analysts, students, and citizens who need a clear model for recognising the next rehearsal for catastrophe.

- Understand how the Condor Legion turned towns like Guernica into proofs-of-concept for terror from the sky

- See why International Brigades mattered most as narrative-and how narratives shape policy

- Learn the logistics behind victory: radios, air war doctrine, fuel, bridges, and the unglamorous arithmetic of supply

Grasp how "neutral" committees can tilt a battlefield, and how early appeasement wrote the timetable for aggression

By the final page, you'll hold a practical lens for reading civil wars that attract outsiders: which signals-foreign airlifts, proxy deployments, doctrinal notes-mean escalation; when non-intervention is intervention by other means; and how to weigh the moral cost of delay. For anyone seeking lessons of proxy wars and the real early warning signs of war, this is rigorous, readable history with consequences for now.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Vij BooksISBN-13:9789390349210ISBN-10:9390349214UPC:9789390349210Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, World, International RelationsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.245Product ID:SC9SNJ28GR
Romano, Luca: - Luca Romano writes at the fault line where history tests power. Raised between Turin and the Tyrrhenian coast and long based in London, he has spent years walking the ridges above the Ebro, tracing rail spurs to bombed-out factories, and reading the small print of diplomacy in quiet archives. His work follows a simple conviction: that ideas, logistics, and memory make war together-and that citizens should be able to read all three. With a craftsman's eye for how things are built and broken, he threads European history to present dilemmas, from non-intervention to the ethics of airpower.
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