A memorial honouring men from East Lancashire who volunteered to fight fascism in the 1930s Spanish Civil War has been unveiled in Burnley. Men from Pendle, Burnley, Rossendale and Hyndburn are ...

For the Catholic Church, the Spanish Civil War was a low point in a century with a lot of lows. When Pope Benedict XVI meets with hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in Spain next month ...

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 ...

Spain's brutal civil conflict gave the Soviet military an opportunity to test its combat readiness in the event of a “big war” on the continent... On Spanish soil, it faced off against an old ...

The brigade was originally made up of roughly 3,000 U.S. citizens who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936 to 1939. Moe Fishman, a spry 91-year-old Lincoln Brigade ...

His family said he had a stroke. Mr. Thomas wrote two novels before gaining acclaim as a historian in 1961 with "The Spanish Civil War." Memories were still fresh about the war, which lasted from ...

Brandeis University Special Collections holds a wide range of materials on the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that many historians consider to be the prelude to World War II. The Spanish Civil War ...

He has also researched in depth the International Brigades invoved in the Spanish Civil War, and has visited almost every one of the battlesites.