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.
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic inc
Испанская 11 интербригада в бою под Бельчите. 1937 edit
The destruction wrought on Granollers after raid