Monthly Archives: August 2024

Lipstick and revolution

Over on one of my other blogs I mentioned that I’ve been trying to identify the provenance of some photographs from the Spanish civil war including this one of a group of Milicianas, young women republican soldiers The young woman … Continue reading

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The Last Cavalry

I have been down an internet rabbit hole with this one. I was reading an Italian novel (in translation) and it mentioned the last Italian cavalry charge as taking place in 1942 at Poloj, in what is now Croatia, where … Continue reading

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