The Spanish Civil War was the last war of ideals, where Spaniards and foreigners struggled to impose their political and social models for the new century. For the first time, men and women from over 20 nations came to Spain to fight for their ideas. It was the end of a way to make and feel war between different people and it opened a new concept of modern warfare, where technology and military tactics definitely changed the way we understand war. Spain was of vital interest to European powers when assessing the performance of new weapons and tactics for the emerging global struggle...

Spain became therefore an excellent testing ground in the preamble of the Second World War.

On July 17th  1936, the curtain rises, the world is again a hostile and dangerous place to live...