In last several years, three solid treatments of women who served in nontraditional roles during the Civil War have been published. Along with a few earlier efforts, these follow on Richard Hall s and ...

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 ...

has produced the first book-length treatment of the role of armor in the Spanish Civil War. He gives us both an excellent look at how tanks were used, and a fairly even-handed treatment of the war ...

He died in New York and was buried in a military cemetery. More from UK 85 African-Americans traveled to Spain to fight alongside the Republican side in the civil war. Their motivation was the ...

Tensions had been building for decades. Economic hardship, political unrest, and growing inequality had gradually weakened Spain’s government. In 1931, the Second Republic was declared, bringing ...

A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay. The 15-strong ...