Extensive material about the Spanish Civil War is available. Much of it, unfortunately, is so partisan as to be useless. The best general history is The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939, by Gabriel Jackson (Princeton University Press, 1972).

The standard work is The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas. The Thomas book has gone through a number of editions; the first edition (1961) is beautifully wriitten. The 1977 edition, published by Hamish Hamilton, is much more thorough, but not the pleasure to read that the first was.

A good recent pictorial history is The Spanish Civil War, a History in Pictures (W.W. Norton, 1986).

There is little in English on the military aspect of the war. Most of what does exist is in the form of personal memoirs. Of these, I highly recommend Alvah Bessie's Men in Battle (Chandler and Sharp, 1975) a great book.

A good collection of personal narratives is found in Ronald Fraser's Blood of Spain (Pantheon, 1979).

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway, is perhaps the best novel to come out of the war.

Spanish Civil War

Introduction and Background
The First Six Months
Foreign Involvement
War in the Summer of 1937
Politics and The Aragon Front
The Czech Crisis and End of War
Bibliographical Note
Who Was Who in the SCW?