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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Xosé Núñez SeixasPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781487541668ISBN 10: 148754166 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 17 March 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Blue Division, the Franco Regime, and the Second World War 1. Russia Is Guilty! 2. A Long March: From Central Europe to the Volkhov Front 3. The Blue Division On the Front 4. Occupation Practices of the Blue Division in Northwest Russia 5. The Last Crusaders of the Nazi New Order, 1944–1945 6. War Veterans and Memories from the Eastern Front in Franco’s Spain Conclusion: A Spanish Exception in the War of Extermination? Sources BibliographyReviewsBased on letters, diaries, and unpublished and published memoirs gleaned from private and public archives in Spain, Germany, and Russia, this groundbreaking book tells the fascinating story of the Spaniards sent by dictator Francisco Franco to fight alongside the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front and the ways they have been remembered in Spain. A superb example of the new military history. - Adrian Shubert, Professor of History, York University In this thoroughly researched and nuanced work, Nunez Seixas seeks to answer the 'big' questions of Spanish participation in the brutal war in Russia, especially that of motivation. He finds that Spanish attitudes reflected a mix of ideological, religious, careerist, and adventurist motivations, but that Spaniards were also less overtly racist, more tolerant of the occupied Soviet population, and less likely to be involved in anti-Jewish actions. An excellent contribution to our understanding of the war in Russia as part of an alleged defensive European crusade against an existential communist (and Jewish) threat. - Stephen G. Fritz, author of Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East The author and translators have done a major service to the English-language literature on Germany's war on the Eastern Front during the Second World War in providing us with this in-depth history of the Blue Division. This work will undoubtedly become the standard English-language work on the division. - Alexander Hill, Professor in Military History, University of Calgary, and author of The Red Army and the Second World War Author InformationXosé M. Núñez Seixas is a professor of modern European history at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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