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Bombs over Biscay, Barcelona and Dresden (1937-1945): From the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War

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    Identifier: PC:3544
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC3544
    Authors:
    Thomàs, Joan MariaIrazabal Agirre, JonArnabat Mata, Ramon
    Abstract:
    Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This is the case of the “other Guernicas”: that is to say, the bombings of Otxandio, Durango and Elorrio in Biscay. They are good examples not only of the brutality inherent in all wars and of how methods of combat become increasingly barbaric as conflicts wear on but also of the way in which some circumstances push events to the forefront of history and make them emblematic.

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    Keywords: Geografia; Història; Guerra Civil; Espanya Geography; History; Civil War; Spain
    Language: Anglès
    Document Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
    Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book info:eu-repo/semantics/book info:eu-repo/semantics/book info:eu-repo/semantics/book
    Author: Thomàs, Joan Maria; Irazabal Agirre, Jon; Arnabat Mata, Ramon
    Document URL: http://llibres.urv.cat/index.php/purv/catalog/book/413
    Document name: Bombs over Biscay, Barcelona and Dresden (1937-1945): From the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
    Abstract: Sometimes tragedies that have little to distinguish them from a wide range of similar events and which can make no claim to record numbers of casualties or destructive impact go down in history as fundamental and emblematic. This is the case of two of the airstrikes discussed in this volume: Barcelona and Dresden. Other tragedies, however, are sometimes obscured by circumstances elsewhere. This is the case of the “other Guernicas”: that is to say, the bombings of Otxandio, Durango and Elorrio in Biscay. They are good examples not only of the brutality inherent in all wars and of how methods of combat become increasingly barbaric as conflicts wear on but also of the way in which some circumstances push events to the forefront of history and make them emblematic.
    ISBN: 978-84-8424-746-3
    Book publication year: 2019

  • Keywords:

    Geografia; Història; Guerra Civil; Espanya
    Geography; History; Civil War; Spain

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