Books by Robert Stradling

"History and Legend" examines how republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War was created as a political and cultural construct, synonymous with Popular Front anti-fascism and positively aligned with artistic production.

Centres on the bombing of Getafe, a town south of Madrid shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This book establishes the importance of the Getafe incident and goes on to analyse "collateral damage" inflicted by air-forces on both sides during the war.