Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalised, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial venture in Morocco in the early twentieth-century turned into a bloody war against the tribes resisting the Spanish invasion of ...

517 pages illustrations 24 cm

Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ...

XCVI, 951 p. ; 24 cm.

There can be little doubting the significance of the Spanish Civil War, both as 'the last great cause' and as a defining moment on the road to the Second World War. In Spain, Mussolini and Hitler drew together in the Rome-Berlin Axis as they witnessed the pusillanimity of the democratic powers. This extensive collection of new research by an international team of scholars engages with the two central ...

"In this sophisticated study, Antonio Míguez Macho and his team of expert scholars explore the connections between violence and memory in modern Spain. Most importantly for a nation with an uncomfortable relationship with its own past, this book reveals how sites of violence also became sites of forgetting. Centred around places of violence such as concentration camps and military courts where prisoners ...

Papers from a conference held Sept. 28 at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. 265 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Met lit.opg. (p. 534-654) en index. xx, 700 p., [16] p. pl. : krt. ; 24 cm.

From the early 1930s, Spanish fascists were fascinated by the 'nice shine' of National Socialism. During the Civil War, the influence of Nazi Germany among Spanish fascists, traditionalists and supporters of the emerging Franci regime increased. As consequence of the pro-Nazi alignment of the Franco regime a Spanish division of volunteers was set up in early summer, 1941 to take part in the Russian ...

Offprint from The Historian, v. 37, no. 1 (Nov. 1974). pages 46-66 ; 24 cm

There is a consensus among scholars regarding the slow transformation of 'hot-blooded terror' into 'cold-blooded terror' during the Civil War and the postwar period in Spain. This article challenges this framework in two ways. First, it argues that the Spanish Civil War did not end in 1939, but lasted until 1952, divided in three stages: symmetric nonconventional warfare (July 1936 - February 1937), ...

Includes material regarding the story of 93 girls who arrived to Canada in 1942 and the Spanish Civil War.

Includes material regarding the story of 93 girls who arrived to Canada in 1942 and the Spanish Civil War.

(Paris 531) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 29, 1946. Hans Cappenlen, Norwegian, testifying in English (a court interpreter sits beside him). Cappenlen tells about concentration camps in Norway. 08:20:00 He testifies of Roma sent to Struthof concentration camp. 08:22:00 Cappenlen mentions that Gross Rosen was a "bad camp" and that the worst was the evacuation of Gross Rosen in February. ...

"Examines how the Francisco Franco regime achieved its goals of state survival and internal order following the divisive Spanish Civil War. Bowen argues that even the most pro-Axis elements within Spain were more concerned with domestic politics, the potential for civil unrest, and poverty than with wartime events in Europe"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) ...

Herman F. Reissig (1899-1985) was a pastor in the United Church of Christ. During the Spanish Civil War, he was affiliated with the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, which in 1939 joined forces with the American Medical Bureau to Save Spanish Democracy to form the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign (SRRC). The SSRC dedicated itself to the rehabilitation and resettlement of Spanish refugees, ...

Pamphlets, bulletins, serial issues, reports, and other printed matter, relating to peace, disarmament, international relations, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Vietnamese War, the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, civil liberties in the United States, and the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Collected by Swarthmore College.

'Regents of the University of California' xxvi, 537 p. ; 25 cm.

St Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. She covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Reagan's wars in Central America in the 1980s. This work presents a critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism. St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and ...

Rollin Kirby was born in Galva, Illinois, on September 4, 1875, to George Washington Kirby and Elizabeth Maddox. His father had a shoe store. When Kirby was nineteen, he moved to New York to study painting at the Art Students League. He then went to Paris, France, to study at the Academie Julian and the Ecole Des Beaux Arts. He had a gallery show of his paintings at the National Academy in New York ...

Martha Gellhorn was a war correspondent for nearly fifty years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, ...

Giorgio Perlasca (1910-1992) was born on Jan. 31, 1910, in Italy, the son of an Italian government official in Padua. He fought for some time in the Spanish Civil War and later took a position in an Italian trade firm. He later worked in other cities in Eastern Europe after Italy entered World War II in 1940. He maintained an official position with the Italian Trade Commission, living in Belgrade, ...

"In this dissertation, I study the motivations, experiences, and reflections of war tourists. I argue that war tourism should be understood as a phenomenon that revolves around the possibility of engaging with place-bound war memories and histories in an embodied, affective, and meaningful way. Through four empirical case studies, I draw an image of the way different groups of visitors motivate, experience, ...