You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast. I want to invite you to join me on the

voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world. These are the

thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

and so many other famous and not so famous adventures from throughout history.

Go to Explorerspodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app.

That's the Explorers Podcast.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to History of the Second World War. On this episode of our Spanish Civil War interview series, I was joined by Alexander Clifford to discuss the international brigades which would be such an important part of the Spanish Civil War. These groups of international volunteers would bolster the Republican cause, both from a public relations

perspective as well as on the battlefields of Spain.

We discussed why these individuals chose to go to Spain, what they experienced during their

time fighting in the war, and their view of the war when it was all over.

I would also like to encourage everyone to head on over to History of the Second World War.com

to find out more information about all of the people that have interviewed for this interview series,

as well as links to certain books that they've written, like Alexander Clifford's books on the International Brigades. Hello everyone and welcome to the Spanish Civil War interview series.

Today I'm here with Alexander Clifford, the author of Fighting for Spain,

the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to 1939,

and one of the hosts of the history's most podcast.

Alexander, how's it going today?

Good, and I'm delighted to be on here. Thanks, Wesley.

Excellent. Thank you for joining me here.

So today we're going to talk about the international brigades, sort of do kind of a deep dive

into what those were and what was happening with them.

...