The horrors of that war have often been concealed by a veneer of romance and the fact that those from Britain and elsewhere who fought in it were volunteers seeking to defend a democratically elected government against the insurgency of General Franco, who was supported by the army and the Catholic church.
One of the 2,000 British volunteers who went to Spain was Ted, a friend of mine. He would have been 100 years old this year (he died in the early 1990s). During the 1980s I spent a year talking to him about his life. I met him through a youth work contact and as a result of a mutual love of motorbikes - but that's another story.
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