The Spanish Civil War which began in late 1936 between left wing republicans and right wing fascists, had by the start of 1937 become bitterly bloody with an increase of casualties on both sides of ...

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On Christmas Day 1936, Francisco Franco was wrestling with a problem. Before the decade was over, he would be Spain’s fascist dictator and would rule for almost four decades. But at that moment, as a ...

Patrick McKechnie, a 13-year-old with a Northern Irish father and a Spanish mother, is wandering with his schoolmates through a battlefield of the Spanish civil war in the Jarama valley, near Madrid.

In the cool shade of a leafy ash tree in south Tipperary, and far from the parched but bloody olive groves of Jarama, Kit Conway was remembered for his heroism in both the Irish War of Independence ...

“THERE’S a valley in Spain called Jarama …” begins the well-known song, commemorating the doughty fighters of the XV International Brigade, who threw themselves against the far better equipped fascist ...

The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ HUNDREDS ...