Spanish Civil War
- Arthur Koestler, interned by the Nationalists
- Laurie Lee, served on the Republican side (A Moment of War)
- George Orwell, served and wounded on the Republican side (Homage to Catalonia)
Read more about this topic: List Of Authors In War
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“Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined—a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
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—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
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