Search the Spanish Civil War Site


Use the form below to search for documents in this Spanish Civil War website containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

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Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

POUM CNT
finds documents containing 'POUM' or 'CNT'

POUM or CNT
same as above

POUM and CNT
finds documents containing both 'POUM' and 'CNT'

POUM not CNT
finds documents containing 'POUM' but not 'CNT'

(POUM not CNT) and Ryan
finds documents containing 'Ryan', plus 'POUM' but not 'CNT'

social*
finds documents containing words starting with 'social'

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