Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Lost Graves of the International Brigades

I recorded and ripped Battlefield Mysteries for your delectation. Here's the blurb:

"Battlefield Mysteries - The Lost Graves of the International Brigades

In 1939, the Fascists won the bloody Spanish Civil War – a vicious struggle of ideologies that drew combatants from across the globe. With history written by the victors, the Fascists wiped out any trace of their rivals – over a quarter of a million people. In this episode we return to present day Spain on a quest to uncover the Lost Graves of the International Brigades."

The programme is approximately 43mins long. I've split it into 7 x 100mb RAR files which you will need to recompile to extract (winRAR should do the trick).

bm - scw - Part 1
bm - scw - Part 2
bm - scw - Part 3
bm - scw - Part 4
bm - scw - Part 5
bm - scw - Part 6
bm - scw - Part 7

5 comments:

Walker said...

Looking forward to this one, H. Sadly the authorities here still don't recognize the sacrifice that British volunteers made in order to fight Fascism- when democracy meant more to ordinary working people than it did to the governmnents of Europe who stood by and watched the Fascists warming up in Spain.
The ruling classes were of course, shitting themselves at having a socialist state in Western Europe, and condemned the international Brigades for 'Supporting Stalinism'
Nice one.

Anonymous said...

Gracias de parte de un republicano Español!!!

No pasaran!

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

Slightly connected, when in Paris I will be visiting the site of the Bastille and also the numerous graveyards and sites dedicated to the fine work of our brothers in sisters in fighting oppression.

A timely reminder.

Jonkarra said...

Any chance you can burn a copy onto CD and leave on my desk in the office next time you are in ?

Highlander said...

@ Walker - Good to have you back. Enjoy your holiday? And ye, Britain and France especially were complicit in Franco's victory by their non-intervention policy. I daresay the ruling class didn't lose any sleep over it.

@ Anonymous - a pleasure. Enjoy.

@ Daniel - With your cosmopolitan travellings you could do a World Tour of Sites with Special Historical Interest to the Working Class. I'd watch the documentary for sure.

@ Jonkarra - CD burnt and in my laptop bag seeing as you can't be bothered to download it you lazy f*ck ;)