Soldier of a New Time

American volunteer pilot Ben Leider was a mercenary in name only during the Spanish Civil War. Although the U.S. was nominally neutral in the Spanish Civil War—which pitted Spain’s Nationalists, aided by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, against the Republicans, whose principal ally was the Soviet Union—the struggle attracted more than 2,800 American mercenaries eager …

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