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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 ...
Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (7 April 1891 – 19 September 1963) was a New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he ...
At the end of the Spanish Civil War the executions of the "enemies of the state" continued (some 50,000 people were killed), [3]: 8 [7]: 405 including the extrajudicial (death squad) executions of members of the Spanish maquis (anti–Francoist guerrillas) and their supporters (los enlaces, "the links"); in the province of Córdoba 220 maquis ...
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 ...
A group of refugees during the Desbandá. The Málaga–Almería road massacre, also known as the Desbandá, was an attack on the Republican -dominated city of Málaga, Spain and its citizens on 8 February 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The city was penetrated by Nationalist forces and their fascist supporters. An estimated 5,000–15,000 ...
The Paracuellos massacres (Spanish: Matanzas de Paracuellos) were a series of mass killings of civilians and prisoners of war by the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War that took place before and during the Siege of Madrid during the early stages of the war. The death toll remains a subject of debate and controversy.
Blood of Spain. First edition (publ. Pantheon Books) Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War (1979) by Ronald Fraser is an influential oral history of the Spanish Civil War. The contents of the book is drawn from hundreds of interviews that Fraser conducted in the 1970s with people who lived through the Spanish civil war.
The July 1936 coup d'état in Granada against the government of the Spanish Republic, which started the Civil War, managed to triumph in Granada and take control of the city. On July 20, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the garrison of Granada revolted against the Government. On the 17th, the coup plotters of the African Army had seized the ...