The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, took the lives of up to 1 million people, and ended with the Nationalist party as the victor after capturing Madrid.

The world's tallest cross dominates the scene above a Spanish Civil War cemetery and memorial in the Valley of the Fallen (renamed the Valley of Cuelgamuros) near Madrid, pictured in October 2019.

Ms. Flórez Peón died on May 23 in a hospital in Gijón, Asturias. She was 105. The Spanish press, which first reported her death, called her the last remaining militiawoman of the Spanish Civil War.

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105 She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...

After more than a decade of legal battles, Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that a set of 13th-century Romanesque murals-removed from the Sijena Monastery during the Spanish Civil War and housed ...

Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

STORY BEHIND THE BOOK Julian Zabalbeascoa on rediscovering the Spanish Civil War and his own family lore The author, a child of Basque immigrants, built his debut novel on research and memory ...

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936, after months of persecution against Catholics by the government of the Second Republic and despite having the option of leaving the diocese, he ...

However, Capa is most well known for his work in the Spanish Civil War. It should be noted that Robert Capa was a pseudonym adopted in 1936 – Capa’s birth name was Endré Ernö Friedmann.

Commercial Shipping and Blockade Operations during the Spanish Civil War With his newest book, Hooton, a retired defense journalist and author of a number of books in military history, including Spain ...