Hello, I recently grew interested in the period of the spanish civil war and I wanted to deepen my knowledge on the subject by reading some books. I know there have already been other posts asking for the same thing, but the main answers were books such as "for whom the bell tolls" or "Homage to catalonia",same goes for the main results while searching on google , I however am not looking for direct accounts or works of fiction but more for a monographic work which narrates the events of the war from an "external" point of view and with a global perspective. I'm sorry if this has already been answered but I still have not been able to find anything that fits my requirements.
The modern Spain section of our booklist is heavy on Spanish Civil War titles. If you're after a global perspective, Lisa Kirschenbaum's book there is a very solid option (though centred on the Communist International, so is a very particular global perspective). Michael Alpert's A New International History of the Spanish Civil War is probably the standard work of international history on the subject, though there's a more recent multi-author collection edited by Gaynor Johnson, The International Context of the Spanish Civil War, which is a bit broader in scope but less cohesive and a bit uneven in quality.