Spanish Civil War /History

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 AHKH

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

SCW 474

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

SCW 472

COMMUNIST RADIO minutes of a radio broadcast. Notes stamps in upper corner. m

Price: $120.00

SCW 471

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

SCW 470

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

SCW 469SCW 469

1938 military censorship instructions from the Army General Chief for the South. m

Price: $90.00

SCW 468SCW 468

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

SCW 467SCW 467

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

SCW 466

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

SCW 465

Military registration, Catalunya, 1936. m

Price: $70.00

SCW 464

Citation for Luis Olos, Valencia, 1937. m

Price: $90.00

SCW 463SCW 463

Certificate of exemption from military service for medical reasons, 1938. m

Price: $120.00

SCW 462

Two letters with patriot motif of Franco, Villarral and Santona, 1938. m

Price: $90.00

SCW 461

Military document, Rear Battalion No. 4, Valencia, 1938. m

Price: $90.00

SCW 460

Military Command document, Valencia, 1936. m

Price: $90.00

SCW 459

UGT Manifesto, Valencia, 1936. m

Price: $90.00

SCW 458

Inventory of the contents of a Republican school, Valencia, 1937. m

Price: $100.00

SCW 450

Spanish Civil War period card game Espana y Sus Banderas. It is complete with original package and playing instructions. It was possibly issued by a more conservative group such as the Falange, Carlists or Catholics. It shows flags for Germany, Italy, Morocco and Portugal. A rare item. MM

Price: $500.00

SCW 450

SCW 450

SCW 450

SCW 448

Collection of photos taken by an Italian soldier named Guido Gambardella, fighing with the Black Arrows in Spain in 1937. He was with a heavy machine gun unit with the VIII Group. Photos of embarking at the station at Azuaga for the frontlines. Photos of Italian and Spanish fascist flags, marching on the Guadalcanal road, photo signed by famed fighter Fernando Tanucci, Cuercca, Oruagara, rare photos of Italian light tankettes, rare photo of a Bersaglieri (as there were no Bersaglieri with the Black Arrows, very rare photo of Arconovaldo Bonaccorsi (“conqueror of Majorca) and nicknamed Conde Rossi or General Aldo Rossi and stamped with name on reverse. The collection dates from June/July 1937, shortly after Franco blended the Italian units into mixed “Arrow” Brigades, the last photo is from a friend named Rudolfa saying “remember our days”. 24 photos, many captioned. MSCW 448

Price: $1200.00

Note: Fernando Tanucci Nannini (1896-1981) received two promotions for war merit, was wounded twice and took part in 12 campaigns. He volunteered into the Bersagliere and served in World War 1, participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1939 and was Commander of the Regiment GG.FF. (Young Fascists), from 1940-1942. His most notable feat in Africa was leading a battalion of 600 Young Fascists alson the Gobi caravan hub on the road to El Alamein in combat against the British. After the war he was a Senator.

SCW 448Arconovaldo Bonaccorsi (1898–1962), was a fanatical and idealistic fascist from the first moment he met Benito Mussolini after World War I. In 1922 he participated in the March on Rome as leader of the fascists from Bologna. He graduated from the Universita di Bologna as attorney in 1928, and soon started to work as a lawyer defending Italian fascists. In the early 1930s he married and had 3 children.

His moment of glory came when Mussolini sent him to the Balearic Islands at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. In Majorca, having arrived in August 1936, he was known as 'Conde Rossi', a name that derived from his red beard. There, he was soon able to "galvanize" the nationalists and obtained a huge victory at Manacor against the Republicans. On December 14, 1936 the British prime minister SCW 448Anthony Eden wrote a memorandum to his government were he pinpointed that Italy could create a "Protectorate" in Majorca which put pressure on Mussolini to withdraw Bonaccorsi from the Baleares islands (where he had just conquered Ibiza with 500 Falangists).As a consequence, in February 1937, Bonaccorsi was promoted to "General of the Blackshirts" (Console delle Milizie fasciste) and sent to the Malaga front with the Italian corps (CTV). He never returned to Majorca. He later served in Italian Ethiopia, where he complained to Mussolini about the dire conditions of the Italian Empire in case of war. Bonaccorsi participated in the 1940 conquest of British Somaliland as military commander of the "Reparto Speciale Autonomo della Milizia fascista", a unit made of 300 Italian Commando. He was a prisoner of war from 1941–1946; after the war he resumed his legal and political activities, and defended German General Otto Wagener, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for atrocities he had committed in Rhodes during World War II. In 1949, Bonaccorsi created the "Associazione Nazionale Combattenti Italiani di Spagna (ANCIS)" and in the same year applied for membership in the neofascist political party "MSI". Bonaccorsi was a candidate for the Italian Social Movement (MSI) in 1958. He died in 1962 in Rome. The Italian newspaper Il Secolo d'Italia praised him with a funeral article, which noted that he was one of the few military commanders who received medals for combat valor from three countries (Italy, Spain and Germany).

SCW 444SCW 444

Six wartime bulletins from the Municipality of Vilanova I la Geltru in the province of Barcelona. It was published by the C.N.T. – F.A.I. Different size paper in each case as the Municipality used whatever paper they could find on any given day. M

Price: $150.00