Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War

by Sebastian Balfour and  

Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalized, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial venture in Morocco in the early twentieth-century turned into a bloody war against the tribes resisting the Spanish invasion of their lands. After suffering a succession of heavy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199252963
• ISBN13: 9780199252961
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"