Nearly 80 years ago, about 2,800 Americans volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. The war began in July 1936, when Gen. Francisco Franco led a fascist military coup against the the country's ...
From 1936-1939, Spain was wracked by a brutal civil war, sparked by a coup against its elected Second Republic. In the course of the conflict the rebelling Nationalist forces of General Francisco ...
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It Is Time to Bury Franco’s Ghost
The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...
A good review of the book on the Spanish Civil War by renowned military historian Anthony Beevor, which was later republished as The battle for Spain. Originally published in 1982, this work has ...
The scholar Nathan Pinkoski, writing in The Claremont Review of Books, considers the take on the Spanish Civil War by the venerable historian of Spain, Stanley Payne. Excerpts: The Second Spanish ...
PAMPLONA, Spain – Marking eight decades since the end of the Spanish Civil War, the remains of 46 unidentified victims of the conflict have been reburied in the northern city of Pamplona. More than ...
An overview of women fighters in the anti-fascist militias during the Spanish civil war 1936-7, written by Lisa Lines in 2009.
“Men of my generation have had Spain in our hearts,” wrote Albert Camus. “It was there that they learned…that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are ...
María José Ferrada, trans. from the Spanish by Elisa Amado, illus. by Ana Penyas. Eerdmans, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5545-9 “Three or four months./ Like summer vacation, only longer.” That is what ...
Father Juan Elías Medina and 126 companions, who were martyred during the Spanish Civil War, were beatified this month in Córdoba. “While he announces the hatred of the world to us, Jesus reminds us ...
A Vatican cardinal beatified four martyrs of the Spanish Civil War on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared Francesco Cástor Sojo López ...
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