World War II in the Basque Country World War II in the Basque Country World War II in the Basque Country refers to the period extending from 1940 to 1944. It affected the French Basque Country, but also bordering areas across the Pyrenees on account of the instability following the end of the Spanish Civil War, and the friendship ties held by Germany, Vichy France, and the triumphant Spanish military dictatorship. In June 1937, the Northern Front of the Spanish Civil War collapsed for the Republicans. Approximately half a million Republicans and civilians fled for their lives in Spain, but possibly up to 150,000 of them were
The Country of the Blind The Country of the Blind "The Country of the Blind" is a short story written by H. G. Wells. It was first published in the April 1904 issue of "The Strand Magazine" and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, "The Country of the Blind and Other Stories". It is one of Wells's best known short stories, and features prominently in literature dealing with blindness. Wells later revised the story, with the expanded version first published by an English private printer, Golden Cockerel Press, in 1939. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain