index. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 1-85285-593-2. While the story of the 40,000 or 50,000 foreign volunteers for the Spanish Republic during the civil war of 1936-1939 has been told often and generally with ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

A foundation is digitizing the nearly 300 films that the Hearst Corporation recorded during the conflict and were shown in ...

BBC World Service’s Witness History is the programme that brings you moments in history told by the people who were there. Presented and produced by Jane Wilkinson for the BBC World Service.

In 1936, he led troops against Spain’s democratically elected government igniting the Spanish Civil War which lasted until his Nationalist forces assumed power in 1939. Spain was aligned with ...

Eighty-five years after her father's execution by Franco's forces, Josefina Fortea receives his remains, bringing closure to her family. The story sheds light on Spain's ongoing struggle to reckon ...

Hartlepool is hosting an annual event for the first time to remember those who fought in the 1930s Spanish Civil War. The ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco. While she hardly knew him, receiving his remains 85 years later has brought ...