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Y’all know that I am a big advocate of studying the Spanish Civil War, looking for insights about where we in the US might — might — be headed, and how we can avoid Spain’s fate. If you ...
The plaque honors New Hampshire veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. In 1936, they joined forces with about 2,800 Americans to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Officials said the ...
In The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933–1936 (2005) and The Spanish Civil War (2012), Payne describes Spain’s descent into a brutal three-year war as the result of the socialist Left’s ...
The war lasted for three years and ended with Franco's victory, aided by fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The revolution saw huge swathes of Spanish industry and agriculture socialised and run ...
The Spanish Civil War began when Gen. Francisco Franco was flown from the Canary Islands, where he was the military governor, to Spanish Morocco where he led a rebellion against the elected ...
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939, with General Franco's Nationalists against left-wing Republicans. The memorial honours: James Bridge, Nelson ...
The very moving exhibition ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ mounted by the Imperial War Museum from November 2001 until April 2002 reminds us all too appositely of the horrors of warfare. The loss of life ...
The recently proposed Spanish bill, “Democratic Memory,” was originally meant to enable the Spanish Supreme Court to investigate the violation of human rights during the Civil War of 1936-39 ...
These chambers operated during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, and were the work of communists fighting for the government side as it battled troops under fascist Gen. Francisco Franco.
Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105. She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...