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Alexander Clifford is a history teacher and has a passion for study of the world wars. He delved into the Spanish Civil War and wrote a book about the Republican Army. We spoke about his new book. Check out the book here https://amzn.to/3bxeXn6
1:09 – Alex discusses how it got into studying and writing on the Spanish Civil War.
3:45 – Alex talks about the levels of hatred and killing during this war.
6:07 – Alex talks about how he breaks the book down. The focus is mainly on military history and the Republican military.
9:02 – Alex talks about the make up of both armies.
19:30 – Alex talks about what the Soviets took from the Republicans and what they gave in return.
23:45 – Alex talks about Soviet goals during the war and how the fighting was going in 1937. He also discusses the French-Soviet alliance.
32:24 – Alex talks about the communist element in the war.
39:38 – Alex talks about urban warfare and where the Republicans did best such as at Madrid.
42:52 – Alex talks about where the International Brigades came from and did.
45:16 – Alex talks about how the Republicans managed the foreign fighters.
47:12 – Alex talks about the make-up of the International Brigades.
51:31 – Alex talks about how black Americans commanded white Americans in this war.
54:13 – Alex talks about the sources for his research starting with the International Brigade literature. He took a more military history angle when looking at them.
1:00:39 – Alex talks about German and Russian documents about the war..
1:03:07 – Alex talks about the honesty of the reports he read.
1:06:14 – Alex talks about Spanish afternoon naps during the war.
1:09:00 – Alex talks about trying to assess the people’s army overall.
1:19:30 – Alex can be found on twitter @historysmost and he has a podcast titled “History’s Most.”
Links of interest
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Peoples-Army-in-the-Spanish-Civil-War-Hardback/p/17104
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1482668168
https://twitter.com/HistorysMost
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Guest: Alexander Clifford
Host: Cris Alvarez
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