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(Subject: Between the World Wars - General) Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War. Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, the author narrates for the first time the development of a brutalised, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial venture in Morocco in the early twentieth-century turned into a bloody war against the tribes resisting the Spanish invasion of their lands. After suffering a succession of heavy military disasters against some of the most accomplished guerrillas in the world, the Spanish army turned to chemical warfare and dropped massive quantities of mustard gas on civilians. (Published: 2002) (Publisher: Oxford University Press) (ISBN: 9780199252961) (Pagination: 380pp, 2 maps, 12pp b/w photos & illustrations ) (Condition: new in pictorial boards) UL-XXXXXX