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In November 1936, two unmarked German Type VIIA submarines prowled the North Sea, cloaked in secrecy as they prepared for ...
Between 1936 and 1939, nearly 200 women journalists reported on the Spanish Civil War, offering a perspective rarely seen at ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
According to Adam Hochschild, about 2,800 Americans fought in the Spanish Civil War, and some were bombed by Nazis years before the U.S. entered World War II. His new book is Spain in Our Hearts.
After being locked in a State House vault for 24 years, a plaque honoring the New Hampshire soldiers who fought against ...
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 ...
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 ...