Alfredo González-Ruibal is a researcher with the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council. His work focuses on the archaeology of the contemporary past and African archaeology. Among other books, he has edited Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence (2015, with Gabriel Moshenska) and is the author of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era (2018), the latter also with Routledge. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology.

Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Time to kill (July 1936 - February 1937); Chapter 3. Capital of Glory (October-December 1936); Chapter 4. Capital of Misery (July 1936-October 1938); Chapter 5. The path to total war (February-October 1937); Chapter 6. Wait and retreat (November 1937 - March 1938); Chapter 7. Forgotten battles (April-July 1938); Chapter 8. The Battle of the Ebro (July-November 1938); Chapter 9. Dead men walking (November 1938-March 1939); Chapter 10. The never-ending war (April 1939-1952); Chapter 11. Aftermath. Heritage and memory; Conclusions