Franco’s International Brigades Adventurers, Fascists, and Christian Crusaders in the Spanish Civil War (United Kingdom: Thistle Publishing, 2015). Preston, Paul.

The daughter of a Manchester man who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has reflected on his "incredible feat of solidarity" as her family is set to become Spanish citizens. The Spanish ...

After a protracted chase into the bay of Cadiz, the Civil Guard were able to intercept the 14 metre long speed boat which carried 1700 kilos of hashish. The speed boat was using 4 outboard motors of ...

In a special collaboration with the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance, historian Indy Neidell imagines a chilling alternate timeline where General Franco is removed before the Spanish ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

Why did Spain spiral into civil war in 1936? Today, we delve into the grinding class conflicts and ferocious political divisions that split Spain in two, from the dictatorship of the 1920s to the ...

Ernest Hemingway returned to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War. As another war in Europe loomed with Adolf Hitler's rise and the spread of fascism, Hemingway told readers of "Esquire" that ...

The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...

The U.S. has seen an uptick in political polarization, as well as growing political unrest in recent weeks, such as the assassination of Minnesota politician Melissa Hortman and protests over ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to bearing bone ...

At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...

People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...