Churchill's Spaniards

Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46

Séan F Scullion

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English

Helion & Company
01 October 2025

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military history; Second World War

""This is a very valuable read for anyone with an interest in the Spanish Civil War and anti-Franco resistance, as well as the role of fugitives from fascism in its defeat."" -The NYMAS Review

Very little, if anything at all, has been told about the service of over one thousand Spanish Republicans who volunteered to join the British Army during the Second World War. Churchill's Spaniards remedies this and tells their story, men who were 'continuing the fight' against fascism from 1939 to 1946.

Churchill's Spaniards is not the story of the Spanish Civil War, nor the equally well-known one of the International Brigades. It is the story - against the backdrop of Churchill's efforts to keep Spain out of the war - of the recruitment, training and deployment of often battle-hardened Spanish Republicans into the service of the United Kingdom. These fighting men served widely across British Armed Forces: as members of the elite SAS and Commandos, in the ranks of the Infantry and of the Pioneer Corps and as members of the Special Operations Executive. Further Spaniards fought in almost all of the battles and campaigns in the West from the Fall of France and the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, to the campaigns in North Africa and Italy, as well as those in North-West Europe.

Using a wide range of material from Britain, France and Spain as well as previously unpublished eyewitness and official accounts along with groundbreaking new research, Séan Scullion finally tells the story of these previously overlooked men.

AUTHOR: Séan is a bi-lingual Spanish-English speaker and an officer in the British Army serving in the Royal Engineers. Brought up in Spain during the later stages of the Franco Regime and its Transition to Democracy, he studied Spanish at the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on military matters and was a Spanish writer for Collins and OUP. Séan is the Secretary of the Royal Engineers Historical Society and previously Secretary of Peninsular War 200. He leads various battlefield tours and is a speaker at conferences and festivals as well as on podcasts in English, Spanish and French.

155 b/w photos, 8 colour plates, 9 b/w maps, 2 tables

By: Séan F Scullion
Imprint: Helion & Company
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Reprint ed.
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781804518465
ISBN 10: 1804518468
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Séan is a bi-lingual Spanish-English speaker and an officer in the British Army serving in the Royal Engineers. Brought up in Spain during the later stages of the Franco Regime and its Transition to Democracy, he studied Spanish at the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on military matters and was a Spanish writer for Collins and OUP. Séan is the Secretary of the Royal Engineers Historical Society and previously Secretary of Peninsular War 200. He leads various battlefield tours and is a speaker at conferences and festivals as well as on podcasts in English, Spanish and French.

Reviews for Churchill's Spaniards: Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46

""This is a very valuable read for anyone with an interest in the Spanish Civil War and anti-Franco resistance, as well as the role of fugitives from fascism in its defeat.""-- ""The NYMAS Review""