{"product_id":"9780008163419","title":"The Last Days of the Spanish Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Preston, Paul \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/05\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008163419,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Segismundo Casado launched a military coup against the government of Juan Negrín. To fulfil his ambition to go down in history as the man who ended the Spanish Civil War, he claimed that Negrín was the puppet of Moscow and that a coup was imminent to establish a Communist dictatorship. Instead his action ensured the Republic ended in catastrophe and shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Paul Preston, the leading historian of twentieth-century Spain, tells this shocking story for the first time in English. It is a harrowing tale of how the flawed decisions of politicans can lead to tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697912938540,"sku":"9780008163419","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008163419.jpg?v=1722606864","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780008163419","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}