The Spanish Civil War

Main Events and Issues
Background to War Overview of Civil War
Spanish Civil War Chronology Popular Front Government
Cortes (Parliament) 1936 Elections
Non-Intervention Agreement Second Republic
May Riots Civil War Casualties

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

The Battle for Spain

 

Military Organizations
Abraham Lincoln Battalion Fifth Regiment
Anarchist Brigades George Washington Battalion
Army of Africa International Brigades
Assault Guard Iron Column
Black Shirts Italian Corps
Blueshirts Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
British Battalion Mickiewicz Battalion
Civil Guard Mixed Brigades
Condor Legion Nationalist Army
Connolly Column Republican Army
Dajakovich Battalion Solidarios
Dimitrov Battalion Thaelmann Battalion

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

Political Organizations
CNT Union Falange Española
Anarchists Federación Anarquista Ibérica
Carlists Partit Catala Proletari
PSUC Radical Party
CEDA Republican Union Party
Comintern Socialist Party (PSOE)
Communist Party (PCE) UGT Union
Esquerra Party Worker's Party (POUM)

 

Defence of Madrid

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

Important Battles and Strategic Positions
Aragón Guernica
Badajoz Jarama
Barcelona Madrid
Belchite Málaga
Brunete Teruel
Ebro Valencia

 

 

Into the Heart of the Fire

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

Biographies: Spanish
José Aguirre Francisco Largo Caballero
Niceto Alcalá Zamora Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
Alfonso XIII Juan López Sánchez
Jose Aranguren Salvador de Madariaga
Luis Araquistain Diego Martinez Barrio
Francisco Ascaso Joaquin Maurin
José Asensio Cipriano Mera
Millán Astray José Miaja
Manuel Azaña Juan Modesto
Luis Barceló Emilio Mola
Julián Besteiro Federica Montseny
Segundo Blanco José Moscardó
Luis Bolin Juan Negrin
Juan Comorera Margarita Nelken
Luis Companys Andrés Nin
Antonio Cordon Juan Garcia Oliver
Santiago Carrillo Juan Peiró
Segismundo Casado Indalecio Prieto
Enrique Delgado Castro Vicente Rojo
Buenaventura Durruti José Calvo Sotelo
Francisco Franco José Sanjurjo
Angel Galarza Miguel Primo de Rivera
José Giral José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Valentin González Pilar Primo de Rivera
Jesus Hernández José Maria Gil Robles
Dolores Ibárruri Vicente Uribe
Enrique Lister Alvarez del Vayo
Federico Garcia Lorca Juan de Yagüe

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

The Spanish Civil War

 

Biographies: Foreign Participants & Observers
William Aalto Oliver Law
Mary Valentine Ackland Laurie Lee
Bill Alexander Ethel MacDonald
John Amery Leah Manning
Hans Amlie André Malraux
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko David Marshall
Duchess of Atholl André Marty
Clement Attlee Marion Merriman
W. H. Auden Robert Merriman
Bill Bailey Robert Minor
Hans Beimler Jessica Mitford
Alvah Bessie Werner Moelders
Franz Borkenau Herbert Morrison
Felicia Browne Annie Murray
Roy Campbell Tom Murray
Christopher Caudwell Steve Nelson
Claude Cockburn Peadar O'Donnell
Cyril Connolly Eoin O'Duffy
Fred Copeman Alexander Orlov
John Cornford George Orwell
Len Crome Dorothy Parker
Nancy Cunard Penny Phelps
Joe Dallet Kim Philby
Georgi Dimitrov Mildred Rackley
David Doran Archibald Ramsay
Jacques Doriot Eleanor Rathbone
Tom Driberg Gustav Regler
Ilya Ehrenburg Ludwig Renn
Florence Farmborough Wolfram von Richthofen
Adolf Galland Paul Robeson
William Gallacher Edwin Rolfe
Joe Garber Esmond Romilly
John Gates Thora Silverthorne
Martha Gellhorn Alfred Sherman
Emma Goldman Emanuel Shinwell
Walter Grant Stephen Spender
Nan Green Hugo Sperrle
John Dos Passos George Steer
Ralph Fox George Strauss
Eslanda Goode Josip Tito
Charlotte Haldane Sybil Thorndyke
John Haldane Lillian Urmston
Ernest Hemingway Sylvia Townsend Warner