title: Air War Over Spain: Aviators, Aircraft and Air Units of the Nationalist and Republican Air Forces 1936-1939
author: Rafael Permuy
description: Rafael A. Permuy Lopez was born in Ferrol in 1949. He has served as a Major in the Reserve Artillery of the Spanish Army and has a masters degree in social communication from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He has worked as an editor and writer for different media in Galicia as well as for military magazines throughout Spain. He has written many articles and books on military subjects and history.
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  ## Hitler_s war
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( The war that came early - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Harry Turtledove
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Harry Turtledove
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Hitler_s war
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 20 JULY 1936-OUTSIDE LISBON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  General Jose Sanjurjo was a short, heavyset man in his early sixties. He
  looked from the light plane to the pilot and back again. “Is everything in
  readiness?” he asked, his tone saying heads would roll if the pilot told him
  no.
  
  
  Major Juan Antonio Ansaldo didn’t tell him anything, not right away. Ansaldo
  was pacing back and forth, his agitation growing with every stride. He watched
  as Sanjurjo’s aides shoved two large, heavy trunks into the airplane. “Those
  look heavy,” Ansaldo said at last.
  
  
  “They hold the general’s uniforms!” an aide said, as if to a simpleton. “On
  the eve of his victorious march into Madrid, he can’t arrive in Burgos without
  uniforms!”
  
  
  Nervously, Ansaldo lit a cigarette. Who was he, a major, to tell Spain’s