Brief background to the Spanish Civil War Spain had voted to become a Republic in 1931 and its royal family went into exile. But, outside its major cities, life in rural Spain was still feudal. Entirely controlled by the army, the catholic church and a handful of phenomenally wealthy landlords. Then, in February 1936, a left-wing Popular Front … [Read more...] about Spanish Civil War – Five Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know
Spanish Civil War
Background to the Spanish Civil War, which I've written about over the past ten years or so, separate from those that relate more to Jack Telford.
Spanish Civil War – The International Women who Fought for Spain
In the three bloody years that followed Spain’s military coup in July 1936, a few women from various parts of the world (Priscilla Scott-Ellis from Britain, for example) volunteered to serve as nurses on behalf of fascist General Franco’s rebel Nationalists. But on the side of the democratically elected Republican Government there was almost a … [Read more...] about Spanish Civil War – The International Women who Fought for Spain
Spanish Civil War – The Ebsworth Connection and a Forgotten Conflict
Whether Francis Crook Ebsworth was truly an ancestor, I’ll never know. But he died fighting for Spanish liberalism, not in the more famous civil war, which took place a century later, but in the carnage of Spain’s First Carlist War, just 180 years ago this month, in 1837. I’d already adopted Ebsworth as my pen name since it originally belonged … [Read more...] about Spanish Civil War – The Ebsworth Connection and a Forgotten Conflict
Spanish Civil War – New Novel, Novela de la Guerra Civil Española.
My sixth novel is a sequel to my 2013 Spanish Civil War story, The Assassin's Mark... October 1938, and a British foreign correspondent is on the run in northern Spain, hunted by three different and deadly enemies determined to kill him before he can reach the … [Read more...] about Spanish Civil War – New Novel, Novela de la Guerra Civil Española.
Spanish Civil War – The War Route of Northern Spain
It’s one of the strange, true but little-known aspects of the Spanish Civil War that, in July 1938, with the conflict still very much in the balance, the fascist General Franco was so sure of winning that he opened up the territory he had conquered in northern Spain for tours of his battlefields. For anybody who wants a more academic account of … [Read more...] about Spanish Civil War – The War Route of Northern Spain