Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987, "The Spanish Civil War" is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking research. While Bolloten's earlier works -- "The ...

The scholar Nathan Pinkoski, writing in The Claremont Review of Books, considers the take on the Spanish Civil War by the venerable historian of Spain, Stanley Payne. Excerpts: The Second Spanish ...

Father Juan Elías Medina and 126 companions, who were martyred during the Spanish Civil War, were beatified this month in Córdoba. “While he announces the hatred of the world to us, Jesus reminds us ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Like today’s Iraq and Syria, the combatants fought amongst themselves as well as the enemy. The Nationalists were a collection of conservatives, monarchists and ...

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 ...

A couple panels from ¡Brigadistas! (Courtesy of Monthly Review Press) Sometime prior to my eighth birthday, my great-grandfather, the poet, writer, and anthologist William Stanley Braithwaite, bought ...

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 ...

War traumatized Sol Fellman. He rarely discussed his Spanish Civil War experience until shortly before his death when he passed on his mementos. Among the documents, his son found a moving four-page ...

Watling is the author of Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London. The first thing I ...