Julius Ruiz: 2 books
‘Paracuellos'
The Elimination of the ‘Fifth Column' in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish civil war: The massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrejón de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo – later Communist...
The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War
Revolutionary Violence in Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined...