Deadly Embrace Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War

Name: Deadly Embrace Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War
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ISBN: 9780199252961

ISBN-10: 0199252963

ISBN-13: 9780199252961

Edition: 2002

Authors: Sebastian Balfour

List price: $165.00

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Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalised, 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 military disasters against some of the most accomplished guerrillas in the world, the Spanish army turned to chemical warfare and dropped massive quantities of mustard gas on civilians. Dr Balfour exposes this previously closely guarded secret…

Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.53" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



The Colonial War



The Invasion of Morocco



Calm Sea and Furious Wind



A Disaster Foretold? The Spanish Defeat at Anual



The Forging of a Colonial Army 1921-30


The Brutalisation of the Colonial War



The Secret History of Chemical Warfare against Moroccans



A Divided Army; Military Castes and Factions in the Colonial Army



The Moorish Other



Cultures, Conditions and Corruption in the Colonial Army


The Colonial Army from Republic to Civil War 1931-39



Repression and Conspiracy



The Reconquest of Spain