While the first world war and the Spanish civil war had already drawn children in Europe and beyond into the orbit of conflict, the second world war ...
The soldiers "wretched children" of this "comic opera with ... He saw enough to realize that the Spanish Civil War was a rehearsal that it was no war of "the people" against the Fascists, but ...
THROUGHOUT the 1930s, facism appeared to be taking over Europe and the Second World War loomed on the horizon.  So when a far right coup threatened ...