Lt-Col Antonio Tejero, who has died aged 93, made world headlines when on February 23 1981, at the head of a force of nearly ...

A good review of the book on the Spanish Civil War by renowned military historian Anthony Beevor, which was later republished as The battle for Spain. Originally published in 1982, this work has ...

A small country on the edge of Europe faces a ruthless attack. It staves off the initial assault. With the help of a major outside power, it defends itself with... While much attention is being paid ...

Spain’s descent into civil war was not inevitable — but once it began, it became one of the most brutal and consequential conflicts of the 20th century. This video traces the collapse of Spain’s ...

This episode traces the Spanish Civil War from the 1936 military rising to Franco’s victory in 1939, including the revolution ...

London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. Pp. viii, 509. Maps, tables, notes, index. $175.00 / £130.00. ISBN:1350230405 A Valuable Reference Guide to the Spanish Civil War Fought in the final years of ...

On Jan. 1, 1938, Bishop Polanco celebrated his last Mass at the Teruel seminary and was arrested eight days later, remaining a prisoner of the Republican forces for 13 months. As prior of the ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and more than 100 Spanish priests killed during the Spanish ...

For the anarchists, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War signifed the long-awaited realization of a worldwide revolution. In this regard, the Russian-Lithuanian-American-English anarchist and ...

Artist Luis Quintanilla sketches a model for his mural at the University of Missouri-Kanas City. The artwork, "Don Quixote in the Modern World," was completed in 1940. Artist Luis Quintanilla fled the ...