Antony Beevor on the Spanish Civil War

Bestselling British author Antony Beevor has rewritten "The Battle for Spain", a book he published in the 1980s about the Spanish Civil War. In an interview with Jenny Aschenbrenner, Beevor explains that the opening of the Russian files made it necessary to reassess the events described in the earlier book. "When a nation is trying to put a difficult period in its history behind it, wounds are often bandaged over even though they can become infected under that bandage. After the death of Franco, Spain wanted to forget its past as quickly as possible, and therefore only looked to the future. Since then, however, interest in finding out what actually happened has grown continually. The left, in particular, feels the need to mourn. The older I get, the more clearly I recognise that history is more about questions than final conclusions."

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