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"History and Legend" examines how republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War was created as a political and cultural construct, synonymous with Popular Front anti-fascism and positively aligned with artistic production.

Centres on the bombing of Getafe, a town south of Madrid shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This book establishes the importance of the Getafe incident and goes on to analyse "collateral damage" inflicted by air-forces on both sides during the war.

This text, illuminated by personal histories, tells the story of what happened to the Catholic and Communist Irish soldiers who went to fight on opposing sides in the Spanish Civil War. Starting with their journey to Spain, it follows their footsteps across the battlefields of Spain.