Table of Contents	6
	Introduction	8
	Spain’s Multiple Wars: Mobilization, Violence and Experiences of War, 1936 –1939	10
	The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War	29
	I. Mobilization	46
	Fighting for Spain? Patriotism, War Mobilization and Soldiers’ Motivations ( 1936 – 1939)*	48
	The Spanish Civil War as a War of Religion	75
	Fascism at War in Spain	91
	Children in the Spanish Civil War	102
	II. Violence	134
	“Our Fatherland was Full of Weeds”. Violence during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship.	136
	Total War Behind the Frontlines? An Inquiry into the Violence on the Republican Side in the Spanish Civil War	155
	III. Combat and Experiences of War	170
	Colonial War and Civil War: The Spanish Army of Africa	172
	The Soldiers’ Experiences of the Spanish Civil War	187
	War as Adventure. The Experience of the Condor Legion in Spain	209
	The Spanish Civil War in the Context of Total War	235
	IV. A Comparative Perspective	246
	How Not to Compare Civil Wars: Greece and Spain	248
	V. Epiloque	266
	Pacifism, Guernica, and the Spanish Civil War	268
	Acknowledgements	294
	List of illustrations	295
	Contributors	296
	Index	299