Why read The Spanish Labyrinth?

Book cover of The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War

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Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics objectively, whilst bearing…

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1 author picked The Spanish Labyrinth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Martha A. Ackelsberg

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This book was originally published almost immediately after the Civil War and provides an extraordinarily rich—and yet very readable---account of the many conflicting forces that led up to the war. It is an indispensable introduction to that history.

From Martha's list on The best books on anarchism and revolution in the Spanish Civil War.