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June 15: Juneteenth
June 29: Pride Month
July 6: Independence Day
Series
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
Español
Description
This program sets the stage for an in-depth study of the Spanish Civil War by making sense of the political situation during the run-up to the war; by profiling disparate groups-centrists, anarchists, socialists, communists, separatists-and their leaders and backers; and by tracking the volatile events that snaked, like a powder train, toward the conflagration that in 1936 erupted in Madrid and touched off the military uprising in Spanish Morocco....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Daddy always said it takes a man of peace to stop a war." Based on the true story of Paul Robeson's visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, comes this recollection of his bravery and activism by his granddaughter, Susan Robeson, with her debut book. When Susan was a child her father and grandfather told her family stories over and over. Grandpa Paul was a great man, a singer with a deep and rumbling voice, a man of peace and principle who...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
En abril de 1937, Alfonso Ros, antiguo comisario de policía atrapado dentro de la zona del bando nacional, es requerido por los altos mandos del ejército sublevado para investigar la sospechosa muerte de Damian von Veltheim, capitán de la Legión Cóndor enviada por Hitler para ayudar a Franco a ganar la guerra. En una Salamanca llena de intrigas, conspiraciones políticas y dobles agentes, según avanza su investigación Alfonso, acompañado del...
Pub. Date
[1938]
Language
English
Description
The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, pitted the leftist government, the Republic, against a nationalist force led by General Francisco Franco. The conflict became increasingly brutal, as Franco's forces began attacking open towns that held no military forces during their march toward Barcelona. The United States, France, and the United Kingdom remained officially neutral during the war, while the Soviet Union supported the Republic,...
Pub. Date
[2005], c1993
Language
English
Description
This program covers the roots of the Spanish Civil War-the electoral defeat of right-wing forces by the union of left-wing parties into the Popular Front; the polarization of Left and Right as Fascism and Communism loomed on the far side of the Pyrenees; the young officers' conspiracy that began the uprising in Morocco. Within days, the conflict had spread to Spain, and the bitter Civil War had begun. The program covers the course of the war: the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país. Recibidos como héroes en Chile -ese “largo pétalo...
18) Butterfly
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Español
Description
A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia.
Un muchacho tímido jóven es publicado de su capullo por un profesor sabio que le muestra la maravilla del mundo natural alrededor de él, entre las relaciones tensas crecientes y el caos de la Guerra civil española en Galicia.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
20) Recuérdame: el barco que salvó a casi medio millar de niños republicanos de la Guerra Civil Española
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela emocionante, tremendamente humana y real, que describe las peripecias de un grupo de niños en un barco hasta su llegada a México. La ayuda del presidente General Cárdenas del Río a los niños republicanos. Recuérdame puede parecer una novela de perdedores que tuvieron que dejarlo todo para huir, pero es ante todo un homenaje a los exiliados de todas las guerras y aquellos que han perdido su patria por la barbarie de la guerra. Sinopsis...
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