Returned Beevor's The Battle for Spain to the library today. It took me quite some time to read it, owing, I think, to the density of detail involved. But in its way I enjoyed that aspect of the text. Spain in the 1930's (and before, and after) was complicated, as is every nation, and trying to simplify the dreadful conflict would be a mistake. There were no heroes, but plenty of villains, on all sides. That's the way of the world when a nation slides into open internal conflict.
If there's one lesson worth learning from history, that's the best one.
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