Photographs and biographies of the British Battalion, XV International Brigade

Para Andrés Gómez-Flores y Ginés Cerdán Milla. But the boy lying dead under the olive tree Was too young. Como recogen los lunáticos diarios que ese año veían la luz cada mañana, los primeros días de febrero de 1937 hacía un frío que pelaba en Albacete. Para entonces nuestra guerra civil tenía ya el color de una sangre irreversible. En medio de todo ese frío, los soldados de un bando y otro se matan defendiendo las líneas invisibles de un frente invisible, buscan tabaco en los bolsillos de…

ASSAULT GUARDS, CIVIL GUARDS & CARABINEROS or the publicly funded, private rearguard armies of the Republic's Stalinist lackeys. Part five of a series of six posts: Part One; Part Two; Part Three and Part Four. On page 223 of Orwell - The Life D.J. Taylor writes: Later that evening government troops from Valencia - crack assault guards, the pride of the Republican Army - Incorrect. The Assault Guards, or Asaltos, or more popularly known as La Guardia de Asalto, were a public order force…

With Rodney Bickerstaffe and Hywell Francis at the launch of Unlikely Warriors Richard Baxell is an historian and author and Research Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he previousl [...]

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Los Guardias de Asalto de la foto de Centelles apuntan sus fusiles parapetados tras una pila de caballos muertos en la esquina de Diputac...

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ASSAULT GUARDS, CIVIL GUARDS & CARABINEROS or the publicly funded, private rearguard armies of the Republic's Stalinist lackeys. Part five of a series of six posts: Part One; Part Two; Part Three and Part Four. On page 223 of Orwell - The Life D.J. Taylor writes: Later that evening government troops from Valencia - crack assault guards, the pride of the Republican Army - Incorrect. The Assault Guards, or Asaltos, or more popularly known as La Guardia de Asalto, were a public order force…

19-J: la batalla de Barcelona durante la Guerra Civil

ASSAULT GUARDS, CIVIL GUARDS & CARABINEROS or the publicly funded, private rearguard armies of the Republic's Stalinist lackeys. Part five of a series of six posts: Part One; Part Two; Part Three and Part Four. On page 223 of Orwell - The Life D.J. Taylor writes: Later that evening government troops from Valencia - crack assault guards, the pride of the Republican Army - Incorrect. The Assault Guards, or Asaltos, or more popularly known as La Guardia de Asalto, were a public order force…

Photographs and biographies of the British Battalion, XV International Brigade

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09-05-2011 Guardias de asalto en la calle Diputación, Barcelona, julio de 1936. © Agustí Centelles. VEGAP. Madrid, 2011. seleniums.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...

ASSAULT GUARDS, CIVIL GUARDS & CARABINEROS or the publicly funded, private rearguard armies of the Republic's Stalinist lackeys. Part five of a series of six posts: Part One; Part Two; Part Three and Part Four. On page 223 of Orwell - The Life D.J. Taylor writes: Later that evening government troops from Valencia - crack assault guards, the pride of the Republican Army - Incorrect. The Assault Guards, or Asaltos, or more popularly known as La Guardia de Asalto, were a public order force…

Man's dearest possession is life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must live so as to feel no torturing regrets. so he can say, - 'All my life and all my strength were given to the...

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