Hemingway’s hugely successful novel, For Whom The Bell Tolls, was based on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Published in 1940, the novel was read extensively by Fidel Castro as he hid in the mountains of Cuba during his civil war to overthrow the dictator Batista.

A visitor’s guide to the birthplace of Salazar.

Readings.

The Adventerous life of one of Americas greatest literary figures.

MADRID, A tourist route between the trenches, where the echoes resound, the Battle of Lopera, one of the bloodiest on the front of Andalusia during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

The sling is usually seen as a humble weapon. That’s a pretty silly view of a weapon most deadly.

The remains of 24 people killed by the Franco regime during the civil war spanilol the graves were dug from the Loma Montija.

The first exhumation of this type and has been more insistent after the victims’ families.

A church in Spain began construction in 1882 but will not be completed until sometime between 2017 and 2026.

We all have studied and read about wars, here is some exclusive facts about them…

Various internal and external factors allowed the regime of General Franciso Franco to last as long as it did. The Franco regime managed to last longer than the two regimes that allowed it to win the Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The Franco regime lasted longer than the other fascist and authoritarian right-wing regimes of Central and Eastern Europe such as those of Hungary and Romania.