That Arab presence in the Spanish Civil War is a fact widely acknowledged in ... crescent and star clearly visible on his eastern style helmet. Sidqi writes about this widespread distrust when ...

Ten years later, at the onset of the Spanish Civil War, that brutality would be visited ... pump can kill a man as easily as the lack of a helmet. I haven’t got one of those either.

Metal helmets have been used by many armies from ancient times to the present day. The Spanish ancestor of the 'boonie hat', the wide-brimmed hat worn by soldiers Rogatywka, the origin of the peculiar ...

This helmet remained ... volunteers during the Spanish-American War. While there were attempts to standardize the equipment, the problems went back to the end of the Civil War when there were ...

The very moving exhibition ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ mounted by the Imperial War Museum from November 2001 until April 2002 reminds us all too appositely of the horrors of warfare. The loss of life ...

Smithsonian Folkways is re-releasing its classic catalog of songs about the Spanish Civil War. Smithsonian Folkways Dinner at folk musician Tom Glazer's house usually ended with a singalong in ...

He spearheaded the plan to identify, and when possible, preserve the graves of Civil War and Spanish American War veterans. “They deserve it and we’re here to do it," he said. "All costs were ...

Watling is the author of Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London. The first ...

The best single description of civil war I have ever encountered is a scene from Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.”Set during the Spanish Civil War, a Spanish woman loyal to the ...

Ángeles Flórez Peón, who left her job as a young seamstress to join leftist guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War and — after her capture and decades in self-exile — returned to Spain as one ...

COLMENAR VIEJO, Spain, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Benita Navacerrada is a 91-year-old Spanish woman with a yearning ... in the aftermath of Spain's Civil War. Sign up here. "I want to know where he ...

The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid.