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Podcast: Irish History Podcast
Episode: Partisans#1 The Long Road to Stalingrad: The Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Description: This is the first episode of Partisans, a new weekly series created by myself and Stewart Reddin. While the series focuses on the experiences of Irish people in the Spanish Civil War, this episode sets the scene. It explains the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, the crisis that consumed Spanish politics in the 1930s and the far reaching implications of that conflict not least for people in Ireland.The show starts however at one of the greatest battles in history...This series has taken months of research which has only been possible...