This book presents an original new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, prior to the events that produced World War II – the Spanish Civil War. It describes the ...

the reasons for the failure of the Popular Front economic policy, the relationship between culture and politics in France in the 1930s and the causes of France's policy of non-intervention in the ...

General Franco ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. More than 350,000 people died in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, which saw Franco's Nationalist forces defeat the Republican government.