It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated their prisoners; the Spanish did the same. KERATRAUNT: It’s a war of ...

In Paris, where the French Government was in hourly, friendly touch with Barcelona, officials sighed: “Let us hope the Spanish war does not end as it began, with mass murder.” Contact us at ...

and Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno wrote asking after a French soldier whose connection to him is a mystery. Courtiers set up a "war office" to sort the requests into one file for the archive ...

More than a century after the First World War, vast stretches of French soil remain contaminated, with some areas still too hazardous to access. Experts warn it could take 700 years to clear ...