45: The Spanish Civil War Pt. 10 - The Battle of Brunete

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Two Republican attacks were launched in the hope of forcing forces to be moved from the north to other areas of Spain. These two attacks, at Guadarrama and Huesca will be our first topic for this episode. However, the primary focus will be on the battle of Brunete. This attack would be launched in July 1937 by the Republican Army and it would achieve one of its goals of forcing the Nationalists to move troops away from their attacks in the north, even if it was in reality too late to halt the collapse of the enclave. The Republicans would commit their best troops, and most of their armor assets, to the attack at Brunete and the failure of the attack would begin a clear decline in the fighting capabilities of the Republican forces, from which they would never really recover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.5	While the nationalist offensive against the Republican Northern Enclave was occurring,
1:17.5	the defense against that offensive was going quite poorly,
1:20.8	and the Republican government began to consider the next Republican attack
1:25.1	with the hope that it would pull nationalist forces south.
1:28.3	The shift of nationalist focus away from Madrid allowed the main Republican military forces
1:34.3	a moment to breathe, recover, and to consider their next move.
1:38.3	The speed of the nationalist victories would then derail some of those preparations that were being made
1:43.3	and would force two Republican
1:45.2	attacks that were launched in the hopes of forcing forces to be moved from the north to any other
1:50.4	area of Spain. These two attacks at Quadrama and Huesca will be our first topic for this episode.
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