Emilio Mola
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Emilio Mola y Vidal was a Spanish military officer who was one of the three leaders of the revolt coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War.
Siege of Madrid
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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War.
Nationalist soldiers raiding a suburb, March 1937
Civilians running away from an unexploded shell.
A bomb crater near Puerta del Sol.
Nationalist aircraft bomb Madrid in late November 1936. Fiat CR 32s, flown by Italian pilots, provide fighter cover.