Spanish Civil War
Military Conflict
Anne Waterston: wartime relief worker at Belsen concentration camp...naval circles, but privately they both felt equally strongly about Britain's failure to support the legitimate Government during the Spanish Civil War, during which Lieutenant Tanner's ship, the destroyer HMS Grafton, was engaged in taking... In this article: Norwegian Campaign, First World War, Spanish Civil War, Royal Navy, HMS Grafton, Bishop of Grantham, and Labour Party |
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Independent.co.uk - Books | 2 days ago
Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Your Face Tomorrow, part 3) By Javier Marias trans Margaret Jull Costa
...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
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | 4 days ago
Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany
...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
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Honolulu Star Bulletin | 4 days ago
Letters to the Editor
...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
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L.A. Times - Latin America | 5 days ago
PASSINGS: Dennis Cole, Bruce King, Francisco Ayala
...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
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 5 days ago
The Eitingons: a 20thCentury Story by MaryKay Wilmers: review
...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
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Miami Herald - Opinion | 6 days ago
True or fake, photo's taker was authentic
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
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washingtonpost.com | 7 days ago
George F. Will on the discounting of a famed war photo
...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
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Times Online | November 13, 2009
Francisco Ayala: Spanish writer
...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
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L.A. Times - Commentary | November 13, 2009
Fidel Castro's long goodbye
...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
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washingtonpost.com | November 05, 2009
Francisco Ayala, 103; Spanish author, Franco foe
...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
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The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. The Civil War devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939, ending with the victory of the rebels and the founding of a dictatorship led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco and the defeat of the supporters of the Republic. Republicans (republicanos), gained the support of the Soviet Union and Mexico, while the followers of the rebellion, nacionales (Nationalists), received the support of the major European Axis powers, namely Italy, Germany, as well as neighbouring Portugal.
The war increased tensions in the lead-up to World War II and was largely seen as a possible war by proxy between the Communist Soviet Union and the Fascist Axis of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. In particular, tanks and bombing of cities from the air were features of the later war in Europe. The advent of the mass media allowed an unprecedented level of attention (Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell and Robert Capa all covered it) and so the war became notable for the passion and political division it inspired, and for atrocities committed on both sides of the conflict. Like other Civil Wars, the Spanish Civil War often pitted family members and trusted neighbours and friends against each other. Apart from the combatants, many civilians were killed for their political or religious views by both sides, and after the war ended in 1939, Republicans were at times persecuted by the victorious Nationalists.
- Name:
- Spanish Civil War, Interwar Period
- Date:
- July 17, 1936
- Outcome:
- Nationalist victory; dissolution of the Spanish Republic and formation of the Spanish State.
- Location:
- Continental Spain, Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Spanish Guinea, Mediterranean Sea
- Combatant:
- Nationalist Spain
- Casualties:
- ~500,000
- Strength:
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- 350 aircraft
- 600,000
- 200 batteries
- 290 batteries
- 450,000
- 600 aircraft
- Commander:
- Juan Negrín
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