Juan Vicente Aliaga

Javier Rodrigo

Gloria Picazo

En este proyecto se planteaba un sinfín de preguntas. ¿Cómo se lleva adelante el trabajo de hacer memoria desde la práctica artística? ¿Cuándo se inició esa tarea dentro del arte? ¿Qué aspectos de la historia, cargada de política, han atraído más a los artistas? ¿Por qué el estudio del pasado histórico ha sido tabú durante mucho tiempo en el Estado español? Por pasado histórico entendemos concretamente el periodo comprendido por la Guerra Civil y sobre todo por las décadas en las que el franquismo ejerció el poder. A través de entrevistas se ha buscado recoger algunas de las manifestaciones que implican revisar la historia desde la Guerra Civil y el franquismo, con algunas alusiones a tiempos más recientes, en los que se situaban los creadores artísticos.

Ejercicios de memoria, espagnol ; castillan

In this highly important book, Javier Rodrigo examines the role of Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. Fascist Italy’s intervention in the Spanish Civil War to provide material, strategic, and diplomatic assistance led to Italy becoming a belligerent in the conflict. Following the unsuccessful military coup of July 1936 and the insurgents’ subsequent failure to take Madrid, the Corps of Voluntary Troops (CTV, Corpo Truppe Volontarie ) was created—in the words of an Italian fascist anthem—to ‘liberate Spain’, usher in a ‘new History’, ‘make the peoples oppressed by the Reds smile again’, and ‘build a fascist Europe’. Far from being insignificant or trivial, the intervention of Fascist Italy and Italian fascists on Spanish soil must be seen as one of the key aspects which contribute to the Spanish conflict’s status as an epitome of the twentieth century. Drawing on sources ranging from ministerial orders to soldiers’ diaries, this book reconstructs the evangelisation of fascism in Spain. This book is the first important study on Fascist Italy’s role in the conflict to appear in English in over 45 years. It examines Italian intervention from angles unfamiliar to English-speaking readers and will be useful to students of history and scholars interested in twentieth-century Europe, fascism, and the international dimension of the Spanish Civil War.

Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Alan Kramer

Miguel Alonso

This groundbreaking book explores the interpretative potential and analytical capacity of the concept ‘fascist warfare’. Was there a specific type of war waged by fascist states? The concept encompasses not only the practice of violence at the front, but also war culture, the relationship between war and the fascist project, and the construction of the national community. Starting with the legacy of the First World War and using a transnational approach, this collection presents case studies of fascist regimes at war, spanning Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Francoist Spain, Croatia, and Imperial Japan. Themes include the idea of rapid warfare as a symbol of fascism, total war, the role of modern technology, the transfer of war cultures between regimes, anti-partisan warfare as a key feature, and the contingent nature and limits of fascist warfare.

Javier Rodrigo

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