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A group of Italian aspiring young pilots construct a glider and then volunteer for service in the Spanish Civil War 1941 Spain Because i saw you cry: Porque te vi llorar: Juan de Orduña: Drama. 1941 Spain The Cruiser Baleares: El crucero Baleares: Enrique del Campo War. Spanish cruiser Baleares, Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1941 Spain The ...
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...
Tragic Week (Spain) Suspects rounded up by the Civil Guard. Deaths: 104 to 150 civilians and 8 military. Five further civilians were executed after the riots. Tragic Week (in Catalan la Setmana Tràgica, in Spanish la Semana Trágica) (25 July – 2 August 1909) was a series of violent confrontations between the Spanish army and anarchists ...
Casualties refer to the November 1936 battle only. The Siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican -controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 ...
Speaking of dystopian, Alex Garland's divisive 2024 film "Civil War," starring Kirsten Dunst as a hardened war photographer, conjured up some big feelings when it was released in theaters earlier ...
A Spanish civilian about to decapitate a French soldier with an axe. [1] The Disasters of War (Spanish: Los desastres de la guerra) is a series of 82 [a 1] prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828). Although Goya did not make known his intention when creating the plates, art ...
NKVD General Pavel Sudoplatov, an ethnic Ukrainian who was later the main handler for his Spanish Civil War colleagues Nahum Eitingon and Ramón Mercader's during the assassination of Leon Trotsky, later recalled, "From 1936 to 1939 there were two life-and-death struggles in Spain, both of them civil wars. One pitted nationalist forces let by ...
The Spanish Civil War was fought between July 17, 1936, and April 1, 1939, between the Second Spanish Republic and the Nationalist Rebels.Republicans tended to align with left-leaning political beliefs, and their faction consisted of Republicans, anarchist, liberals, communist, socialist, and separatist groups.