Spanish Civil War

Frances Lannon is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has published extensively on the cultural and political origins and significance of the Spanish Civil War, including 'Privilege, Persecution and Prophecy: The Catholic Church in Spain 1875-1975' (1987), and recent articles on women in the Civil War.

• Introduction and Chronology; Background to war; Warring sides; Outbreak; The fighting; Portrait of a soldier; World around war; Portrait of a civilian; How the war ended; Conclusion and consequences

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 was of enormous international as well as national significance. In this gripping volume, Frances Lannon explains how this internal conflict saw the fight between democracy and communism played out on a small scale, only to be fought out again in the Second World War.