On 1st April 1939 General Franco, the leader of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, drafted a report on the military situation was the last in a series of bulletins wh.ch were issued by both ...
It read: ‘General strike against the genocide ... Tens of thousands of people crowded the main cities in Spain, waving flags, sporting keffiyehs and chanting slogans like ‘Boycott Israel’, ‘It’s not ...
In 1938 long before he had written "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty four," George Orwell published an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War an account which was universally as ...
The Sagrera Tower air-raid shelter in Barcelona has been opened to the public to show the historical memory of the city from ...
one-eyed General Millan Astray. Outside, the three-month-old Spanish Civil War rages on. Inside, the atmosphere is taut. “Viva la Muerte!” — Long Live Death!”, General Astray shouts ...
Work has begun on exhuming the bodies of four men killed in the Spanish Civil War from the controversial Valley of the Fallen monument near Madrid. Tens of thousands of unidentified civil war ...
he was named “Generalissimo”—a general among generals. During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his ...