Born in Buenos Aires in 1819, Juana Manso de Noronha was a writer, journalist, newspaper editor, ...

Juana Manuela Gorriti was one of the major literary figures in nineteenth century Latin America b...

Set principally in San Sebastián and Madrid between 1934 and 1936, this brutally honest, semi-aut...

Juana Manuela Gorriti was born in Argentina in 1814, in the province of Salta. Her father fought ...

Our Native Lane (La tierra natal), Juana Manuela Gorriti's last major work, published in 1889, re...

Oasis en la vida is a melodramatic novel by the outstanding Argentine author Juana Manuela Gorrit...

Constancia de la Mora was the granddaughter of Antonio Maura, who had served under Alfonso XIII a...

David Marshall was born in Middlesbrough in 1916, and volunteered for the International Brigade i...

Bored with life in London, Nancy and Archie Johnstone left their jobs and moved to the Costa Brav...

Hotel in Flight is the second volume of Nancy Johnstone's autobiographical accounts. As described...

Esmond Romilly (1918-1941) was Winston Churchill's nephew and even rumoured to be his illegitimat...

In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company t...

Cuba's third war of independence had begun in February 1865. The US declared war on Spain in Apri...

In 1939, in the final stages of the Spanish Civil War, Nancy and Archie Johnstone made a desperat...

Agnes Hodgson arrived in Barcelona from Sydney in December 1936, towards the start of the Spanish...

The year is 1838. Valentín de Avellaneda has been forced into exile in Uruguay with his wife and ...

First published in 1946, Marguerite Reilly traces the story of an Irish immigrant family across f...

Between 1936 and 1939 several thousand men and women from Britain chose to leave the safety of th...

The year is 1838. Valentín de Avellaneda has been forced into exile in Uruguay with his wife and ...

Lucía Miranda y su esposo, el soldado español Sebastián Hurtado, viven en la fortaleza Santo Espí...

This collection of essays by Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, falls broadl...

At the age of nineteen, Lillian Urmston volunteered her services as a nurse in the Spanish Civil ...

The mayor of a small village somewhere in Aragón is shot dead at night on a lonely mountain road....

Between 1936 and 1939, some 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland volunteered to support t...

Frida Stewart (m. Knight) wrote Firing a Shot for Freedom in the 1940s when her experiences in Sp...

Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war...

Aged twenty-one, James R Jump gave up his job as a journalist and went to Spain to fight General ...

Jan Kurzke was a left-wing artist who fled Nazi Germany in the early 1930s and tramped round the ...

Kate Mangan was a graduate of Slade Art School and sometime model and danseuse in Paris, much adm...

Bob Baldock spent five months in the Sierra Maestra of Cuba in1958 with Fidel Castro's combat uni...

The author joined the International Brigades in Spain as a volunteer to fight against the fascist...

The stories included in this volume are linked around the central themes of poverty and hunger, l...

First published in 1936, Behind the Spanish Barricades chronicles the early months of the Spanish...

When Daniel spurns the priesthood after seven years secluded in a Spanish seminary, his sister ma...

After the Spanish Civil War was lost, around half a million Republican loyalists fled across the ...

The stories included in this Spanish language volume are linked around the central themes of pove...

Frank G. Tinker Jr was a freelance US pilot who signed up with the Republican forces in Spain bec...

In 1934 Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell retired at the age of seventy from a distinguished career as ...

This collection, selected from the pages of the magazine of the International Brigade Memorial Tr...

A young soldier, Gustavo Sintora, arrives in Madrid Franco's rebel forces capture Málaga. He is p...

This collection of essays by Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, falls broadl...