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stonetools · 05-26-2012, 01:28 PM

Rising out of a kerfuffle on the original thread about the US Civil War, I thought that the positive thing to do is to start a thread for recommendations about "other " (none-US) civil wars.

Several major ones have been suggested:

The English Civil War
The Spanish Civil War
The Russian Civil War

The term "civil war" is a bit murky, though . When is a civil war a civil war, and not a rebellion ? (The US Civil War was originally described as the "War of the Rebellion".) Was the Vietnam conflict (1945-75) a civil war?
Let's just keep it to wars that are named as civil wars, in order to keep the thread from getting too unwieldy.
Looking forward to some recommends. I know beans about the Spanish Civil War, for example , but from all reports its a crucial event in the history of contemporary western Europe,and highly influential to the course of the much larger conflagration that broke out a few years later.

05-26-2012, 01:28 PM	#1
stonetools Wizard Posts: 2,016 Karma: 2838487 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Device: Ipad, IPhone	"Other " Civil War recommendations Rising out of a kerfuffle on the original thread about the US Civil War, I thought that the positive thing to do is to start a thread for recommendations about "other " (none-US) civil wars. Several major ones have been suggested: The English Civil War The Spanish Civil War The Russian Civil War The term "civil war" is a bit murky, though . When is a civil war a civil war, and not a rebellion ? (The US Civil War was originally described as the "War of the Rebellion".) Was the Vietnam conflict (1945-75) a civil war? Let's just keep it to wars that are named as civil wars, in order to keep the thread from getting too unwieldy. Looking forward to some recommends. I know beans about the Spanish Civil War, for example , but from all reports its a crucial event in the history of contemporary western Europe,and highly influential to the course of the much larger conflagration that broke out a few years later.