I want to welcome everyone to Part 11, the finale of my reading of The Last Crusade by Warren H. Carroll.

Thomas and I are still doing our watch and movie reviews. We're going to be we're going to keep

doing them. We did the movie resurrection man from 1998 and put that up on gum road.

That's an amazing remarkable movie and Thomas provides so much background on the history

behind the real people that are depicted in that movie.

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All right?

Basically this book was meant to be the title of it is really the last crusade

Spain 1936. This is supposed to talk about 1936 because that's when the most horrific targeting happened and

you know it's just a build up to it so he went and did it the whole year and now this is Road to victory. He does a very short wrap up of

1937 and 1939 and how Franco's forces the Nationalists win.

So, gonna finish this up.

Let's do it.

The inability of the Spanish Nationalist Army

even spearheaded by its finest fighting men to take Madrid in November

1936 was the main cause for the prolongation of the Spanish Civil War for two and a half more years.

Both sides remained committed to their cause to the very end, though many historians

argue that Franco could have ended the war a year earlier by promising amnesty to all or most of the leaders

and principal supporters of the republic.

But he insisted undeviatingly on unconditional surrender.

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