Stars and Stripes

Spanish group working to add Basque-American names to World War II memorial on Okinawa

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Spanish historical association dedicated to the Basque ethnic minority and its participation in World War II is taking steps to preserve the memory of soldiers and Marines who ...
The New York Times

This Old Basque Soldier Expected to Die 80 Years Ago

BILBAO, Spain — When José Moreno, a Basque soldier, was captured in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, he was sentenced to death by one of the commanders in the army of Gen. Francisco Franco, the ...
Stars and Stripes

Name of Basque-American Marine to be added to Okinawa battle memorial

The last of six Basque-American troops killed during the Battle of Okinawa will join nearly 250,000 other names on a memorial ...
sciencex

Anthropologists study autobiographies in Basque of people who took part in the Spanish War

They say that history is written by the victors. But the combatants, fundamental to the outcome of war, rarely appear in this history - whether victors or vanquished. University of the Basque Country ...
Reuters

Author tells tale of love and war in Basque Country

LONDON (Reuters) - Set in the Basque country of northeastern Spain in the 1930s, U.S. writer Dave Boling's debut novel is a family saga with the horrific German bombing of the small town of Guernica ...
Opinion

Picasso’s Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain’s partisan squabbles

Forty years after the 1937 masterpiece returned to Madrid from its Franco-era exile in New York, it is again embroiled in politics, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez ...