THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, DECEMBER 1936 - JANUARY 1937
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Members of the International Brigade Cavalry division practice their horsemanship by cantering around a field. In the background, the walls of a courtyard (possibly the training ground at Albacete) can be seen.
Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. Yet at the time, it was a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy.
