Civil War Stories

Introduction

Civil War Stories

1. Plaza Tetuan (‘Red Square’)

The battle for Spain

2. Cervelló Palace

War versus revolution

3. San Lorenzo church

Anticlericalism and the fifth column

4. Air raid shelter

Bombing and total war

5. Convent of Santa Ursula

The Left divided: communists, socialists, anarchists

6. Plaza del Ayuntamiento

Visions of Spain and the road to war

7. Hotel Metropol

Foreign writers and the antifascist cause

8. Military Police HQ

Confronting the past? Legacies of the civil war