Secondary Sources

A secondary source, this book is written by Anthony Beevor, A British military Historian, It is originally published in 2006. Its purpose was to revise previous interpretations and recount the events that happened in the Spanish civil war. The focus of the book is on 2 Chapters, one being chapter 17: The battle of Madrid and Chapter and Chapter 33: The fall of Catalonia, both chapters depicts to different key battles that uses the Guerra Celere(rapid war)that results to the loss of territory for the republicans and describe how the strategy of rapid and major offensive were used. The author uses a number of sources to produce an accurate historical account of the events happening during the Spanish civil war, therefore it can be said that the source chance of being biased is little. The source is …show more content…
The text involves a detailed description and information regarding the battle and skirmishes involved in the Spanish civil war. The purpose of this text is for students of history and for the general public interested in in the Republican struggle during the Spanish civil wars and it acts as a revision to previous interpretations of Republicans struggle. The source is valuable as it describes the struggle of republicans suffering from lack of supplies and constant rapid war strategy offenses done by the Nationalist. It demonstrates how the nationalist was able to gain territory through the use of Guerre Celere Strategy to maximize its gain in territories. The limitation that burden this source is the fact that the author is biased regarding on the side he chose, as he tends to focus his facts on only the Republicans, meaning that information is not equally distributed on the two sides. Another limitation of the source is that the text may have been only briefly researched this is due to the information contained in the text is quite