This is the story of the heroic Spanish volunteers who fought for the Allies in World War Two. After fighting for their homeland against Franco’s fascist Nationalists, the defeated Republicans, including young anarchist Juan Lopez, fled to North Africa where they eventually joined the Free French Forces. Together with the French, the Spaniards were valiant […]
Many air fighters painted an emblem on their machines, and William Kidd felt like a pirate with crossed cutlasses marked on his Sopwith Camel. That was before he shot down the ace German fighter with the broadsword on his plane… and then did the same to his son in the Spanish Civil War. Now, a […]
Aggregate rocket scientist Professor Carl Epstein was forced to flee Berlin in 1935, fearing Germany would use his knowledge to rain destruction on its enemies. Epstein and his wife chose peace, settling in a sleepy Spanish town. But soon the Nazis would come for them… Now, in 1938, amidst the devastation of the Spanish Civil […]
There was no turning back for Joe Lane and Ian Benson. Fugitives from the British Army because of a moment of madness, they fled to Europe. It was 1936, and in Spain a savage civil war was raging. What better way to hide from justice than as hired soldiers in a foreign war? But they […]
In 1936, when Spain erupted into a vicious civil war, the world watched through their magnifying glasses. With Hitler and Mussolini supporting the Nationalists and Stalin supporting the Republicans – the war seemed like a practice for the cataclysmic events that were to follow. British reporters, Pete Beckford and Owen Carver, were sent in to […]
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