| This will be one of
the two core sections of the website, that along with the Home
Front section, deals with how the Spanish Civil War directly affected
the lives of Europeans. Here we deal with the experiences of the men
and women who made the journey to Spain to contribute to the war effort.
Most were volunteers but not all. The experiences cover both Nationalist
and Republican perspectives. The focus will be on empathy: understanding
the motivation behind the decision to go to Spain; reliving the experience
of the perilous journey (usually) across the Pyrenees; and of course, the
experience of war, battle, imprisonment and the aftermath.
In this section the emphasis will be on the
primary testimony of the participants. We will include extracts from the
memoirs, the oral history transcripts, the photographs and artifacts of
those involved.
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