So this one is tough because I really find the Spanish Civil War interesting as it was a conflict that pretty much summed up a lot of what was coming. A nation strifed by economic mismanagement and poverty has a population that is slowly radicalizing to both extremes of the political spectrum. Simply, Fascism and Communism, however the more you look into it the greater the nuance between these two factions. There are subfactions and ideologies at odds with each other within these two factions. A country united by people, language, history ripping each other apart because of ideology. Now this book looks into it in great detail but doesn't read very easily. It does feel like a textbook and that is probably the reason I put it down. I may come back to it, but for now I've stopped a third of the way through.