Deadly Embrace

Sebastian Balfour's Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War is a solid piece of research following on from his last book, The End of Spanish Empire, 1898-1923 (1997) ... Balfour renders fresh much familiar material, with original interpretations of figures obscured by their reputations ... he offers an important interpretative revision of the bulk of the campaigns of 1924-27 against Abdel Krim and his 'Republic of the Rif', underlining the calculated use of poisonous gases ... his argument is innovative and very convincing.

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Zusammenfassung
Throwing light on military cultures, racism, and the experience of the soldier in war, from the early twentieth century to the 1930s, this book presents the brutality of the colonial war in Morocco and the export of that brutality to Spain in the Civil War. It also depicts the story of the chemical warfare waged by Spain against Moroccans.

Inhalt
The Colonial War
2: Calm Sea and Furious Wind
3: A Disaster Foretold? The Spanish Defeat at Anual
4: The Forging of a Colonial Army 1921-30
The Brutalisation of the Colonial War
6: A Divided Army; Military Castes and Factions in the Colonial Army
7: The Moorish Other
8: Cultures, Conditions and Corruption in the Colonial Army
The Colonial Army from Republic to Civil War 1931-39
10: The Reconquest of Spain

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