Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left to right: Dutch director Joris Ivens, Ernest Hemingway and Ludwig Renn, chief of staff in the International Brigades, in ...

Esdaile, Charles J. The Spanish Civil War: A Military History (New York, Routledge, 2018). Fraser, Ronald. Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War (New York: Pantheon Books, 1979).

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 ...

“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything.” Rafael Madariaga is talking about the bombing of the northern Spanish town of Gernika on April 26, 1937, during the ...

As the Spanish Civil War raged between 1936 and 1939, Republican forces took hold of thousands of paintings and sculptures, as well as other valuables, to safeguard them from the conflict. When the ...

An article by Raymond S. Solomon about the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (May 2014). During the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, Spanish anarchists and ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spies and soldiers, politically engaged and deeply partisan -- such is the way a new exhibition portrays some of the intriguing band of foreign correspondents who risked their lives ...

The martyrs to be beatified in the Seville cathedral on Nov. 18 include 10 priests, one seminarian and nine laypeople. All of them were killed out of hatred for the faith in 1936. Archbishop José ...

The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid. The government ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to bearing bone ...

MADRID, June 12 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government ...