The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War met with a great public response in Switzerland. In the summer of 1936 the volunteers from this country started arriving into International Brigades. They was coming mostly from the ...

Writing about the volunteers participating in struggles of the Spanish Civil War, one reservation is necessary. Namely only persons coming from the British Isles were taken into account, not from other parts of the Empire. ...

Polish volunteers played relatively important role during the Spanish Civil War. Majority of them fought in the Republican Army (ca. 4500–5000 among ca. 35 000 soldiers of the international brigades). Most of volunteers ...