Most of us, if we remember the Spanish Civil War at all, know it as a bloody European warmup for World War II, or as a conflict that inspired a lot of great literature. One side — the embattled ...

The Spanish civil war, which ran from 1936 to 1939, is most notable to historians for how it foreshadowed the horrors of World War II. Yet few distant conflicts are so burned into our culture and ...

“By the time you get this letter I will be in Europe. I am going to Spain,” wrote 19-year-old Joe Selligman Jr. to his parents in December 1936. “Please don’t try to follow or catch me or anything.” ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has catapulted the issue of fascism into the mainstream U.S. political realm, we turn to best-selling author Adam Hochschild, who has just written a ...

According to Adam Hochschild, about 2,800 Americans fought in the Spanish Civil War, and some were bombed by Nazis years before the U.S. entered World War II. His book, 'Spain in Our Hearts,' is now ...

HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (232 pp.)— George Orwell — Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). In December 1936, a 33-year-old Englishman named Eric Blair arrived in Barcelona to have a look at Spain’s civil war and write ...

There's something romantic about biographer Amanda Vaill's device of making the Hotel Florida in Madrid the hub of her new book about the Spanish Civil War, called Hotel Florida; but, then again, ...