Spanish Civil War

...under torture; in the third volume, he weighs this against the narrator's father's colleague, who betrayed him in the same Spanish Civil War. In between, other stories of betrayal cast light and nuance on the theme. In the second...

In this article: Javier Marias, Oxford, World War I, Rumination, and Henry IV

...Wednesday with the tables turned: This time he was a suspect, accused of overstepping his authority in a huge domestic case involving Spanish civil war atrocities. Baltasar Garzon made no comment to reporters as he arrived at the Supreme...

In this article: Supreme Court, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, Baltasar Garzon, Osama bin Laden, and The Miami Herald

...published opinion column to "expose" a left-leaning photographer, Robert Capa, who staged a single photo of a soldier's death during the Spanish Civil War 70 years ago ("Staged war photograph stains Capa's legacy," Star-Bulletin, Nov. 15).

In this article: Robert Capa, Department of Natural Resources, Recession, Unemployment, Iraq War, Yale, Harvard, and Viva

...prestigious award given for Spanish-language literature -- in 1991. His life as a young man turned into a flight from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, which ended after Franco died...

In this article: Francisco Ayala, Dennis Cole, Bruce King, New Mexico, Francisco Franco, Jaclyn Smith, Charlie's Angels, Cattle, and Cervantes Prize

...long someone is prepared to talk to her, a bit, about "dyadya Leonid". Leonid comes up in many accounts of Trotsky's death, of the Spanish Civil War and in the Mitrokhin archive (though much less in documents concerning the battle to...

In this article: Moscow and Outsourcing

Was famous Capa war photograph a fake? Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events...

In this article: Robert Capa, Fascism, The Hurt Locker, Francisco Franco, and Kathryn Bigelow

...faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatants, was perhaps the century's emblematic...

In this article: Robert Capa, Fascism, Democracy, Duplicity, Amplitude, Communism, Omaha Beach, and World War I

...Vargas, whom he married in 1931. The following year he began to work as a law lecturer at the Complutense University, Madrid. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936, Ayala was on a lecture tour in Argentina but immediately...

In this article: Francisco Ayala, Madrid, Spain, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Catholicism, Nationalists, Political philosophy, and Nobel Prize for Literature

...has also kept the news media in an indefinite state of high alert, as they formulate and reformulate coverage and obituaries. The veteran Spanish Civil War reporter Martha Gellhorn found herself in a similar pickle three decades ago. In 1975,...

In this article: Fidel Castro, Francisco Franco, Cuba, Surgery, Raul Castro, Spain, Ideology, Granma, and Brookings Institution

...Compitello, head of the Spanish and Portuguese department at the University of Arizona, said Mr. Ayala's novels reflect on why the Spanish Civil War took place and the effects the war had on those who stayed and those who left. Compitello...

In this article: Francisco Ayala, Francisco Franco, Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Princeton University, Pablo Picasso, and Madrid