Rodrigo, Javier
(ed.)
Editorial: Routledge
Colección: Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain
Número de páginas: 240 págs.
Fecha de edición: 09-01-2023
EAN: 9780367762377
ISBN: 978-0-367-76237-7
Precio (sin IVA): 49,46 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 51,44 €
Fascist Italy’s intervention in the Spanish Civil War to provide material, strategic, and diplomatic assistance led to Italy becoming a belligerent in the conflict. Following the unsuccessful military coup of July 1936 and the insurgents’ subsequent failure to take Madrid, the Corps of Voluntary Troops (CTV, Corpo Truppe Volontarie ) was created—in the words of an Italian fascist anthem—to ‘liberate Spain’, usher in a ‘new History’, ‘make the peoples oppressed by the Reds smile again’, and ‘build a fascist Europe’. Far from being insignificant or trivial, the intervention of Fascist Italy and Italian fascists on Spanish soil must be seen as one of the key aspects which contribute to the Spanish conflict’s status as an epitome of the twentieth century. Drawing on sources ranging from ministerial orders to soldiers’ diaries, this book reconstructs the evangelisation of fascism in Spain.