Even that is not the first time an European country was bombed from the air, as in 1849, Austrian forces dropped bombs on Venice from hot air balloons during Festa della Madonna della Salute.īesides this, she cherry picked the information she wanted to share, talking about some American volunteers, but ignoring quite an important bit of information on the start of the war: the assassination of politician José Calvo Sotelo a few days before the rebellion started. German Zeppelins dropped a bomb near Dover castle on 24 December 1914. I was surprised to see an English historian talking about Spain as being the first European country to be bombarded. On top of that, the last sentence in this short quote is wrong. I would have agreed with something like “it is unlikely that Franco had doubts in using terror” as it still leaves the place for maybe it was not, as we just don’t know how much time he spent thinking on this. Even with diaries it can be a bit tricky to make such strong remarks. First of all, she makes the assumption that Franco had “no doubts” and I’m wondering where did she get such a good insight into what Franco was thinking. This is a very problematic approach from a historian. Spain was the first European country to suffer this acme of modern warfare.” He opened cities and towns to mass aerial bombardment. “… Franco had no doubt that he was justified in using terror against the civilian population. I am going to give an example, from page 71: By now I’m used to left-wing bias in the books on the Spanish civil war, but Graham makes some awkward comments. I was disappointed to see such blatant bias in the book. That is before I went deeper into the notes I made and the essays, to prepare for my exam. It is a short book, perfect size to remember what I studied a few months ago. I read The Spanish Civil War by Helen Graham – A Very Short Introduction – for revision.
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