The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. The Civil War devastated Spain from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939,...
New insights into the Spanish Civil War are based on counterfactual analysis of what might have happened if the Republicans had been victorious rather than the Nationalists. The Republic would probably have been punitive, especially toward the vanquished nationalists, as well as autocratic. A...
THE LAST TIME THAT ANYONE did a serious count, there were over 15,000 books published about the Spanish Civil War. That was in 1968 and the counting was done by a team from Franco's Ministry of Information. The scale of the literature then was...
Juliana Sanchez passes a trembling hand in the air above the cracked and crumbling skeletons in the dry earth at her feet, her eyes moist and her voice quavering.One of these sets of bones — perhaps this one with tattered leather shoes still attached to...
The following is a translation of a letter from death row by Vicente Sanchez to his brother, Eladio, during the Spanish Civil War. His daughter, Juliana, provided The Associated Press with a copy.___Malaga, March 10, 1937My dearest brother:Today I have been tried by the Summary...
