Re-writing my book about the Spanish Civil War

Last week I decided to begin re-writing LA ULTIMA CRUZADA. I wrote the first edition back in the late 1980s, and produced a much revised second edition in 1993.

Since then I have continued to carry on my researches, and now that the second edition has been out of print for quite some time and is only available on the second-hand book market, it felt that the time was right for a revised third edition to be published.

I have approached the re-write with the intention of making the contents more thematic, and so far I have produced chapters that cover:

• The politics of the Spanish Civil War
• The main events of the Spanish Civil War
• The Spanish Army in 1936
• The Republican Army 1936 - 1939
• The Nationalist Army 1936 - 1939
• The Spanish Navy in 1936
• The Republican Navy 1936 - 1939
• The Nationalist Navy 1936 - 1939
• Appendix 1: Warships of the Spanish Civil War

I am trying to include as many relevant illustrations as possible, although the quality of some of the photographs is not quite as good as I would have liked.

So far the process is taking less time than I expected, and with luck I should be finished by the end of the summer. At that point I will have to decide whether or not to publish it as a hardback and/or as a paperback.