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Reading notes only - not a review ___________________ Halfway through Antony Beevor's book The Battle For Spain, on the Spanish civil war... it dawned o
Reading notes only - not a review ___________________ Halfway through Antony Beevor's book The Battle For Spain, on the Spanish civil war... it dawned on me that it felt a bit like deciding to study a forest by taking a microscope to leaves and bark from various trees, without having a foundational knowledge of what a tree actually looked like, let alone a forest. Even a glance at Wikipedia about the Spanish civil war would have helped beforehand, but I hadn't looked. So this is not to say I think Beevor's book deficient, but my own knowledge certainly is. Alas. Hence my paltry attempts to start to correct this gap by reading books. Mental note - next time start with wiki then get into books. Having now noted my complete ignorance of the topic going in, this book gave me an appreciation for how the army uprising - Franco's side - was aided heavily by Germany and Italy, while what would later be western allies retained mostly intransigent policies of non-intervention. "Culture wars" played a great part in at least laying the foundations for conflict. Great final chapter on the role of historians, brief discussion on how the way history is understood affects current times, and the benefit of having people with lived experience able to recount their experiences. ___________________ "We should not mythologize our fears and turn them as weapons on those who are different. The Spanish civil war, and all the other civil wars of Europe's 20th century, were configured in great part by this mythologizing of fear, by hatred of difference. The greatest challenge of the 21st century is, then, not to do this."
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