Hi there! My main mission is finding historians that back up each of the three main reasons I have (hopefully correctly) identified from my preliminary research - Franco's political mastery & the Nationalists' better overall military strategy, Republican disunity and weaker military power, and the way foreign intervention or lack thereof exacerbated both sides' respective strengths and weaknesses. In particular, I am trying to find articles or excerpts from books that I can access online - this research is part of my coursework, and I need to find supporting quotes as well as provide analysis of the situation. I have the gist of these three reasons down, but I am just in need of specific quotations. It looks like Beevor mainly posits the Republican weakness view, and likewise Preston seems to be on the side of foreign intervention being most significant - these may be wrong assumptions, as I have based them on just some skim-reading, so please correct/add to these if appropriate.
While I am mainly looking for sources, I would be more than happy to read any further analyses and things I may have missed in answer to my main question - I am very interested in this period besides my school work, so I look forward to learning more.
Thanks in advance :)
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