Asturian-American Migration Forum

This article about the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship talks very positively about how Spain has moved beyond the horrors of its Civil War. A lot has happened since the article was written in 1998, so our perspectives on these topics may be different today. Still, it's a good introduction the the Spanish Civil War for Americans who may never have had a chance to read anything about that epoch in history. And it may be interesting for Spaniards to see how an American magazine reviewed the war decades afterward.

A shortened version of the text is available here:
http://www.robertwernick.com/articles/brunete.shtml

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For whom the bell tolled
by Robert Wernick
Smithsonian; April 1998, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p111

ABSTRACT: Focuses on the Spanish Civil War. Its start as a revolutionary uprising against the government; Its evolution into a conflict of global import; The fact that it was the first war in history that could be followed in detail by the world; The mass bombing of helpless civilians in cities; The estimated half-million Spaniards killed; The Franco reign.

Uno de los mejores artículos que he leído hasta ahora sobre los antecedentes de la Guerra civil española.