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When we got to Bordeaux I had not eaten for four or five days. The Secours Rouge Français had organised some food; we had to line up and we were given a hunk of bread and a piece of cheese. I tore off a piece of bread with my teeth but I couldn’t swallow anything at all because I had been without food for so long. But afterwards I got into another queue where they were handing out coffee with milk and after I had drunk some of that I felt better and was able to eat a little.
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The first heavy bombing came in seventeen raids during 16 to 18 March carried out by Italian planes flying from Majorca. In all 1300 people were killed and 2000 wounded by penetrating explosive bombs, incendiaries and anti-personnel bombs. The German Ambassador in Salamanca, Stohrer, reported the effect as, ‘terrible. All parts of the city were affected. There was no evidence of any attempt to hit military objectives.’ H. Thomas, The Spanish Civil War (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964 edn.), p. 658; R. Fraser, Blood of Spain, p. 442.
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MacMaster, N. (1990). Catalonia in War — David. In: Spanish Fighters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21009-1_8
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