Description In July 1936, an army-led coup against the democratically elected republican government ushered in the Spanish Civil War.
McCabe recorded the arrival of the nationalist war machine in his diaries, vividly documenting the horror of the repression and his encounters with Franco, Nazi officers.
McCabe was rector of the Irish College in Salamanca when General Francisco Franco seized power a few months later and established his GHQ in the medieval city.
Father Alexander J.
Description In July 1936, an army-led coup against the democratically elected republican government ushered in the Spanish Civil War