Spanish Civil War

‘You are history. You are legend.’ Canada’s last Spanish Civil War vet dies

Jules Paivio was last of a group of idealists who chose to fight and die with suffering citizens in faraway country

Fiction about Spain’s historical facts

Spanish fiction informed by fact

Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s characters pull memory out of the shadows of the past

Jules Paivio

Spain honours a Canadian who joined its fight against fascism

Yesterday, under grey skies by the banks of the Ottawa River, Spain fulfilled an old promise to a 94-year-old Canadian.

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Spain on the eve of war, and an appeal to book publishers

Late this summer a letter arrived at my Ottawa office from a woman living about 40 minutes away in the Quebec village of Wakefield.

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The ‘Superjuez’ under fire

Crusading judge Baltasar Garzón faces charges for opening the wounds of the Fascist past

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The veterans we forget

You who will emerge from under the flood

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Spain: the civil war lives on

Garzón’s inquiry into the Franco era has angered some