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The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, took the lives of up to 1 million people, and ended with the Nationalist party as the victor after capturing Madrid. What happened next?
A biography by Caroline Angus of anarcho-syndicalist militant Federica Montseny Mañé. Originally posted: March 3, 2017 at ...
Smithsonian Folkways is re-releasing its classic catalog of songs about the Spanish Civil War. Smithsonian Folkways Dinner at folk musician Tom Glazer's house usually ended with a singalong in ...
Ángeles Flórez Peón, who left her job as a young seamstress to join leftist guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War and — after her capture and decades in self-exile — returned to Spain as one ...
In his debut novel, “What We Tried to Bury Grows Here,” Zabalbeascoa brings together family lore and mountains of research to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Spanish Civil War ...
More than half a million people died during the Spanish Civil War and an estimated 150,000 were killed later in repression by Franco's 1939-75 dictatorship, historians estimate. None of the works ...
The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh has celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War with a special day-long event. Almost 600 men went from Scotland to fight on the side of the ...