Tag: International brigades
Oliver Law: The forgotten story of how a Black American soldier became the first to lead an integrated battalion...
THE Battle of Jarama in February 1936 during the Spanish Civil War served as a brutal reality check for the anti-fascist volunteer army known...
Anti-fascist Brigades fighter from Valencia area of Spain who resisted Franco as a teenager dies, aged 101
THE last known survivor of the International Brigades who fought against General Franco and the fascists in the Spanish Civil War has died, aged...
Newly-discovered documents reveal secrets of the Irish International Brigades
The Irish hero of the International Brigades sent men home to save their lives
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After the death of Britain’s last Spanish Civil War hero David Lomon, Mason Jones looks at the incredible bravery and sacrifice the men of the rag-taggle army of the International Brigades made coming to fight Franco in Spain
Leading Hispanist criticises new book on Spanish Civil War
Paul Preston described David Haycock's book as 'totally wrong'
Ernest Hemingway’s Spanish muse dies
Maria Sans inspired a character in the American author's Spanish Civil War tome For Whom the Bell Tolls
Mass Civil War grave found in northern Spain
Discovery follows news that 4,000 Brits fought Franco, more than double the number previously stated
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Waitress in Spain’s A Coruña finds €4,000 pearl in plate of clams
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