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Baghdad, Kandahar, Jakarta not to mention Dresden, Hiroshima, Hanoi: the mass killing of civilians as collateral damage, especially as the result of air bombardment, represents one of the most emotional and ethically urgent issues in the contemporary world. Many experts in the field see the civil war that tore apart Spain as the original site of this new kind of war, as George Steer, reporting on the bombing of Guernica, christened it. "Your Children Will Be Next" centers on the bombing of Getafe, a small town south of Madrid, shortly after that war s outbreak when Nationalist rebels...

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) has been described as the last great cause and as a poet's war. This text examines the links between these two descripts through a critical analysis of the role of the International Brigades as defenders of the Spanish Republic against tyranny and fascism.

The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threw Irish politics, north and south of the border, into turmoil. Tragic events in Spain aroused emotive responses across the spectrum of Irish society. In contrast to most other communities of the British Isles, citizens of the Irish Free State were mainly pro-Franco. But many on the left felt a strong identification with the plight of the Republic. Ireland sent large organized bodies of men to fight on opposite sides in the Spanish Civil War. The International Brigade volunteers were led by the IRA warrior, Frank Ryan. Their rivals, who became a...