Source notes, often including other snippets, are provided at the bottom of the page in reader-friendly fashion. Archival sources in Madrid and London and research into Spanish newspapers are blended into a rich mixture of memoirs and up-to-date secondary sources to produce a chronologically organized and, for all its use of detail, lucid analytical account. In the book under review here, she has broadened out her subject to cover the complex political history of the whole Republican side during the thirty-four event-packed months of civil war. Helen Graham won her scholarly spurs with her well-researched study Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis, 1936-1939 (1991).
