This book brings together leading British and Spanish historians in an examination of key aspects of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), with contributors exploring a range of important new perspectives. The war was the first major battle in the international struggle between fascism and democracy, a struggle that dominated the 1930s and 1940s throughout Europe. This complex studies breaks new ground in its wide-ranging analysis of different aspects of the conflict. Contributors discuss: the politics of memory; the specific experiences of two of the international volunteers who served in the war; recent revisionist historiography; biographies of international volunteers; the experience of nursing in Catalonia; the baptism of fire of Jarama; Britain’s blocking of aid to the Republic; Soviet intervention in the conflict; and the crimes of Franco, both during and after the war.