Lt-Col Antonio Tejero, who has died aged 93, made world headlines when on February 23 1981, at the head of a force of nearly ...

The Spanish Civil War was fought between 1936 and 1939 between General Franco's nationalists and left-wing republicans. The ...

This episode traces the Spanish Civil War from the 1936 military rising to Franco’s victory in 1939, including the revolution and repression on both sides, foreign intervention, and the grinding war ...

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 ...

It’s inspiring to learn about ordinary, working people who travelled to Spain to defend democracy and tried to stop fascism' ...

On Jan. 1, 1938, Bishop Polanco celebrated his last Mass at the Teruel seminary and was arrested eight days later, remaining a prisoner of the Republican forces for 13 months. As prior of the ...

London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. Pp. viii, 509. Maps, tables, notes, index. $175.00 / £130.00. ISBN:1350230405 A Valuable Reference Guide to the Spanish Civil War Fought in the final years of ...

Letters in cursive Catalan, colorful cartoons, feminist magazines, propaganda posters that call for women to “smash” fascism. These objects, all nearly a century old, are part of the Beinecke Rare ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...

For the anarchists, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War signifed the long-awaited realization of a worldwide revolution. In this regard, the Russian-Lithuanian-American-English anarchist and ...

The wounds of the Civil War remained fresh more than three decades after the end of the divisive conflict, with limited reconciliation among the country's citizens having taken place. But when the USS ...