Spanish Volunteers in the First World War in Historiography

Abstract

This article seeks to trace the historiographical trajectory of one of the most forgotten aspects in studies on the impact of the Great War in neutral Spain between 1914 and 1918: the participation of a contingent of volunteers who served in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion. After exploring various contributions that represent the state of the art in relation to the subject under study, I propose a series of paths for further development that would overcome the limitations of existing studies, which to date have primarily focused on the relationship between volunteers and the international strategy of Catalan nationalism.