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AuthorFrancisco Javier González Martín
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La guerra es una realidad innegable, al margen de sentimientos y
preocupaciones éticas que traten de negar su existencia o de rechazarla.
No solo es algo consustancial al ser humano, sino que ofrece tipologías
y capacidad de adaptación a todos los tiempos. En este libro que pre-
sentamos, su autor, el profesor González Martín, pretende desgranar los
motivos, los contenidos y procesos internos de los conflictos civiles arma-
dos, recurriendo a la ciencia política y al derecho sin abandonar la pers-
pectiva histórica. El autor ha tratado de prescindir del término “guerra
civil” porque aun cuando sea muy relevante -por ejemplo, en el 36 espa-
ñol- debe situarse en una dimensión más general, desmitificada, compa-
rativa, como apuntaran Enzo Traverso1, Ernest Nolte2, François Furet3,
Paul Preston4 o Julián Casanova5 desde distintos ángulos: a pesar de las
diferencias, todos utilizan el mismo concepto, “La guerra civil europea”.
Al fin y al cabo, toda ideología personaliza la causa, ya que cuando una
ideología se apodera de mí (o yo de ella) -si seguimos un conocido aserto
1 TRAVERSO, Enzo, A sangre y fuego. Valencia. PPV. 2016.
2 NOLTE, Ernest, La guerra civil europea 1917-1945. Nacionalsocialismo frente a bolchevis-
mo. México/Madrid. 2012.
3 FURET, François et NOLTE, Ernest. Fascismo y comunismo. Madrid. Alianza. 2009
4 PRESTON, Paul. “La guerra civil europea: 1914-1945”, en M. Cruz Romeo e Ismael
Saz, ed. El siglo XX. Historiografía e Historia (Actas del V Congreso de la Asociación de
Historia Contemporánea). Valencia. Universidad de Valencia.2002, Pág. 138.
5 CASANOVA, Julián Europa contra Europa. Barcelona. Critica 2013.

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