The Spanish Civil War (from 1936 to 1939) was, as someone said, the last war of ideals, where the two opposite ideologies dominating the world, Communism and Fascism, fought to the death for dominating the future of human kind.
Prelude to the Second World War, it was the” testing ground” for the development of new weapons and military techniques for the most powerful nations at that time, Germany and the U.S.S.R.
Considered as the first war of the modern era, the Spanish Civil War started a new way of conceiving the war: For the first time, Civilians suffered massively the consequences of war at the rearguard, because the massive bombardment of all cities and villages across Spain.
Battles with evocative names such as “Jarama”, “the Siege of El Alcazar de Toledo”, “Belchite”
or “the Battle of the River Ebro” became part of the modern military history.
