a documentary on the Arab presence in the Spanish Civil War. According to Castells’ figures and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, 211 Moroccans, 11 Syrians, four Palestinians ...

Moroccans were known as some of the fiercest fighters among the troops of right-wing General Francisco Franco in Spain’s 1936-1939 civil ... Spanish protectorate at the time. An estimated 80,000 ...

Though the Moroccans, or Regulares Indigenas ... controversy over Robert Capa’s most iconic photograph of the Spanish Civil War, Falling Soldier, as the primary motive behind the search for ...

Learn how Francisco Franco won the Spanish Civil War and became the dictator ... It was not longer war against the Moroccans, it was war against the Spaniards. (Guy Hedgecoe) It was not just ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his debut novel, “What We Tried to Bury Grows Here,” Zabalbeascoa brings together family lore and mountains of research to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Spanish Civil War ...