Blood of Spain : an oral history of the Spanish Civil War

Conversations taped between June 1973 and May 1975 with more than three hundred survivors of the Spanish Civil War provide a chronological account of the fratricidal struggle, which brought violence and desperation to every family in Spain. Contains Primary Source Material. July 1936: Friday, 17 July ; Saturday, 18 July ; Sunday, 19 July ; Militancies 1: Left Republican Schoolmaster ; Mobday, 20 July -- February To July 1936: Catalonia ; Old Castlie ; Militancies 2: Falangist Farmer ; Latifundist Spain ; Militancies 3: C.n.t. Day-labourer ; Pre-revolution -- July 1936: Monday, 20 July : The Rising Frustrated ; Three Decisive Events -- July To September 1936: First Combats ; Militancies 4: Carlist Peasant ; Foreign Aid ; Village Civil War--baena ; Aragon Militia Columns ; Barcelona : The Revolution ; Episodes 1: Attack ; Counter-revolution ; Militancies 5: Monarchist Student ; Populat Justice ; The Question Of Revolutionary Power --^ Autumn 1936: The Basque Country ; Episodes 2: Flight ; Franco ; Head Of The New Nationalist State ; Barcelona : Collectivization ; Militancies 6: C.n.t. Textile Worker ; Carcelona : Collectivization ; Asturias ; Militancies 7: Socialist Railwayman ; Asturias : Revolution And The Siege Of Oviedo ; Militancies 8: Communist Peasant ; The Denfence Of Madrid ; Episodes 3: Repression -- Winter 1936: Episodes 4: Return ; Rural Peace : The Nationalist Zone ; Women And The Revolution ; Militancies 9: F.u.e.-js U. Education Militiaman ; Madrid : Revolution ; Episodes 5: In Hiding ; Episodes 6: Liberation ; Episodes 7: Escape --^ Spring 1937: Women And The Counter-revolution ; A New State, A New Life ; Militancies 10: Falangist Leader ; One Fatherland, One State, One Caudillo ; War And Revolution, Revolution And War ; Anarcho-syndicalist Rural Collectivization : Aragon ; Militancies 11: C.n.t. Column Leader ; Arnacho-syndicalist Rural Colelctivization : Aragon ; Barcelona : Civil War Withing The War ; The Republican State In Control ; Militancies 12: P.o.u.m. Leader ; The Republican State In Control -- Summer To Autumn 1937: The Fall Of Vizcaya ; Militancies 13: P.n.v. Engineer ; The Basque Army's Surrender ; Militancies 14: C.e.d.a. Lawyer ; The Church ; Militancies 15: Madrid Priest ; Asturias : End Of The War In The North ; Episodes 8: Fugitives ; Episodes 9: Silences ; Episodes 10: Evacuees --^ Winter 1937 To Summer 1938: Teruel ; Barcelona : Italian Air Raids ; Militancies 16: Liega Catalana Lawyer ; Barcelona : The Petty Bourgeoisie Withdraws ; Episodes 11: Imbroglios ; Barcelona : Rearguard ; Madrid : Life Under Siege ; Militancies 17: Socialist Commissar-inspector ; Episodes 12: Crossing The Lines ; Episodes 13: Execution ; Founding The National-syndicalist State ; Episodes 14: Survivor ; Episodes 15: Death-watch -- Winter 1938 To Spring 1939: Republican Defeat On The Ebro ; The Fall Of Catalonia ; Madrid : Civil War Within The War ; Militancies 18: Socialist Youth Political Commissar ; Madrid : Surrender ; Alicante : Victory ; Vae Victis! -- The Republic 1931-6 : Points Of Rupture: The Land ; The Petty Bourgeoisie And The Religious Question ; Two Nationalisms ; Libertarians And The Republic ; October 1934, The Popular Front, Orthodox And Dissident Communists ; The Army. Ronald Fraser. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [595]-599. An influential oral history of the Spanish Civil War. The contents of the work is drawn from hundreds of interviews that Fraser conducted in the 1970s with people who lived through the Spanish civil war.