Spanish Civil War volunteers revisit battlegrounds [audio 5min]
Five aging American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades are expected at a reunion of the International Brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. They will revisit the battlegrounds where they made their ill-fated stand against Fascism. Thousands of foreign volunteers -- or brigadistas -- fought in the civil war, a conflict that presaged the great battles of the 20th century. Only a few hundred brigadistas are still alive, and only a few dozen will be able to make the reunion, which could be their last. Report by Jerome Socolovsky.
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