You Are Legend: The Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

“Mothers! Women! When the years pass by and the wounds of war are stanched; when the memory of the sad and bloody days dissipates in a present of liberty, of peace and of well­being … speak to your children. Tell them of these men of the International Brigades.”

Dolores Ibarruri, ‘La Pasionaria’, Madrid 1938

Almost 200 Welshmen volunteered to join the International Brigade and travelled to Spain to fight fascism with the Republicans during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. Whilst over 150 retu...