ABSTRACT
I have always given to two specific, quite singular, chapters of the Spanish Civil War historiography a more inquisitive approach than to other categories of seemingly more fundamental significance – than, for example, to the military or diplomatic history of the struggle. These two specific parts are constituted by the journalism and propaganda of the Spanish conflict. They are to some extent interrelated, at least, overlapping. It is not hard to see why these two subjects are of considerable and continuing interest. The Spanish Civil War involved directly but a small part of the globe, but it drew toward Spain the attention of the whole world; thus the press that covered the Spanish War was more diversified in its actors and in its interpretations than the press that reported on the Second World War; thus the field open to propagandists during the Civil War was large and varied, but in the Second World War, where most of the independent countries of the world were themselves participants, the areas at the disposition of the conflicting propagandas were quite limited.
