Guernica the Crucible of World War II Author:Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts How and why the cultural and religious capital of the Basque people was reduced to rubble by the Nazi Condor Legion air force. The first -- and only -- book to have interviewed all survivors of the blitzkrieg and those who launched it. — The cultural and religious capital of northern Spain was reduced to rubble on April 26, 1937. — Franco said the... more » people of Guernica destroyed the town themselves.
Others -- in Spain and throughout the world -- protested what they believed to be an unprecedented wartime slaughter of innocent civilians.
The controversy can now end. Guernica proves both views wrong, at last presenting the truth about a tragedy too long misunderstood.« less