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Collection of 12 issues of La Traca. Anti-fascist. Extremely rare. M
Price: $3600.00
Spanish Civil War /History
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Falanges Azules, 1936. M
Price: $80.00
SCW 485Republican poster supplement of Enrique Lister. m
Price: $30.00
Note: Enrique Líster Forján (April 21, 1907 – December 8, 1994) was a Spanish communist politician and military officer. He was born in 1907 at Ameneiro, A Coruña. A stonemason, he spent his adolescence in Cuba, before returning in 1925 and joining the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). His involvement with the revolutionary movement forced his exile until 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. In August 1931, he took part in the Cuban uprising against Gerardo Machado, who had declared martial law. Between 1932 and 1935, Líster received training in the Frunze Military Academy, one of the most respected in the Soviet Union. in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War started, he joined the Fifth Regiment. The following year, as a high-ranking army officer, commanding the 11th division of the republican army, Líster was instrumental in the defense of Madrid and other important military actions. In October 1936 he led a mixed brigade in the ill-fated Republican counteroffensive at Seseña. As a divisional commander, he helped stall the Nationalist attack along the Jarama and played a significant role in the successful Republican counterattack in the Battle of Guadalajara.
Líster is widely regarded as a war hero for the Republican cause. His reputation as a competent military commander is largely based on his role as commander of the "11th Division", which was involved in some of the most important battles in Guadalajara, Brunete, Belchite and Teruel. Those brigades under his control rapidly became special battalions which took care of special operations. Some consider examples of his high-level tactical command dubious as the seizure of Brunete that helped to capture the nationalist general staff with almost no casualties for the republican army and his surprise action in Teruel that totally confused the nationalist army. Beevor, however, cites 4,300 casualties out of a strength of 13,353 at Brunete. Beevor quotes the chief Soviet advisor as reporting that Líster's division collapsed and 'lost its head and fled. We managed with great difficulty to bring it under control and prevent soldiers from fleeing their units. The toughest of repressive measures had to be applied. About 400 of those fleeing were shot on 24 July.' Later, he led the V Army Corps in the battle of the Ebro and in the Catalonia Offensive.
The "11ª División" did, however suffer a severe setback when it failed to capture Fuentes de Ebro in the Republican offensive in Aragon in August 1937. The International Tank Regiment lost the majority of its tanks and this led to mutual hatred between Lister and Juan Modesto, commander of the 5th Corps (which "11th Division" formed a part of) who held Lister responsible for the losses.
After the end of the Civil War, Líster took refuge in Moscow, later fighting in World War II as a Red Army general. He took part in the relief of Leningrad's siege in January 1944. According to Christopher Andrewand Oleg Gordievsky, when in late 1959 Fidel Castro's intelligence chief Ramiro Valdés contacted the KGB in Mexico City, the Soviets sent over one hundred mostly Spanish-speaking advisors, including Enrique Líster, to organize the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Cuba.
Líster was also a general of the Yugoslav People's Army, giving him the rare distinction of having been a general in three different armies.
In 1973 he split from the PCE and founded the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (PCOE). A catalyst for the split was the condemnation by the PCE of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Líster returned to Spain in 1977, after Francisco Franco's death, and rejoined the PCE during the Spanish transition to democracy. He died in 1994 in Madrid.
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Catalan independence postcard during the Civil War. M
Price: $50.00
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La Repubblica di Spagna Con Riferimento Alle Cose D’Italia, by Ludovico Zuccoli, Napoli, 1943. M
Price: $90.00
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Membership dues card for the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista, Seccion Espanola, for the year 1938. Uncirculated. MMM
Price: $30.00
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Set of 5 anti-Communist leaflets dropped over Catalunya by Capital Luigi Filippo Benedettini. He was in flight reconnaissance with the Italian Air Force the Italian Air Force in late 1938 and 1939. MMM
Price: $500.00
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El Soldado Desconocido. Ciadermp 1, by A. Fossati. M
Price: $60.00
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Collection of 54 Republican documents/manuscripts all from the Civil War. An interesting collection of different stamps from different governments and left wing organizations. M SOLD
Price: $1200.00
SCW 476Spanish Civil War Auca titled Aleluyas de un Soldado – Que Combate a Nuestro Lado, or “Aleluya of a Soldier Who Fights Beside Us”. It is propaganda against the Nationalists. In our Spanish (bull) ring a hysterical hive lives (church, military, business)…..They wanted to have it all under their control…On July 18 of a hot day…In Morocco the revolt started…It went on to the rest of Spain…And the people with weapons in hand…In Madrid they got beaten up…While in Barcelona it did not go as well…And in Valencia one morning they gave them first…Towards Madrid they left, but they were stopped at a mountain…While in the North they also beat the fascists…While the magnates of fascism are shocked…And to not be defeated they decide to intervene…Then they send planes, cannons and the Germans…Which together with Portuguese, Moroccans and Irish…With Italian fascists which are even more nationalist…And all together they form this block…But the people are not silly and form their own army…In less than counting 1, 2, 3, they stop them at Madrid…Without this being strange they are armed at Guadalajara…Because the poor traveller (Mussolini) had to go back without his luggage…And this painter (Hitler) goes deaf…As before we will make the invader leave (1808)…In this way soon we will triumph and Spain will be free. Rare. BBmm AH
Note: An auca is a graphic format popular in Spain and especially in the region of Catalonia around Barcelona. The genre dates at least to the 17th century but was banned during the 18th century before experiencing a renewal during the 19th and later the 20th centuries as a uniquely Catalonian form of expression. It takes the form of a cartoon or a comic strip, typically with 48 blocks of image and text, although some may have less. An auca is generally produced as a single sheet, but occasionally a booklet form is used. The captions tend to have some sort of consistent rhyme to assist with the flow and storytelling. Many times the term “auca” appears in the title, but another term, “aleluya,” is used, apparently interchangeably. Some sources indicate that the aleluya originated in Castile and originally included religious elements that were shed over time. Auca was a very popular form of anti-Nationalist propaganda during the Civil War.
Price: $600.00
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Two completed forms for volunteers to the 39th Mixed Brigade with instructions on where to proceed, dated March 17, 1939, at the end of the war. m
Price: $100.00
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COMMUNIST RADIO minutes of a radio broadcast. Notes stamps in upper corner. m
Price: $120.00
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Directive from the Military Command of Puerto Santa Maria relating to telephone censorship and the willingness to grant a phone licence for business needs. 1938. m
Price: $90.00
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ARMY CHIEF OF GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE SOUTH, PUERTO SANTA MARIA. Directive concerning military censorship of the telephones, April 20, 1938. m
Price: $80.00
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1938 military censorship instructions from the Army General Chief for the South. m
Price: $90.00
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Military Command PTO Santa Maria, Cadiz, 1938. It describes telephone censorship for hotels, businesss, individuals, prostitutes, talking with leading people, for anyone suspected of loyalty to the Regime. m
Price: $180.00
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Diary of a soldier fighting in Chiva, Valencia, May-July 1937. 22 pages. It is a log book of the Commander of the Guard of the assault on the village of Chiva. It records the soldiers standing guard and any unusual activity. m
Price: $350.00
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Northern Army Pass for Don Jose Maria Guinot Galan to go from Zaragoza to Tarrega to join up with the American 23rd regiment (ABL Brigade?). m
Price: $120.00
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Military registration, Catalunya, 1936. m
Price: $70.00
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Citation for Luis Olos, Valencia, 1937. m
Price: $90.00