Ronald Fraser (1) (1930–2012)

A sociological study of the roots of the Guerrillas of the Peninsula, with a lot of statistics on the Spanish Society of the time. There is not much romance but the author constructed databases relating to over 700 of the men engaged in Guerillas' activities. The prose style is professional academic grade but not compelling. If you want some idea of the social structure of the guerrilla partidas this is the book for you. The maps are clustered at the front and several are useful. They are xeroxable for handy reference. There are text footnotes at the bottoms of pages, some useful, and the bibliographic citations are at the end. A book to be read for completeness, and it's pretty accessible to the chapter reader for essays.… (mehr)