On the 17th of July 1936 an uprising began in Spanish Morocco that was to lead to nearly three years of civil war and the deaths of tens of thousands of Spaniards. It was a struggle fundamentally of Right versus Left, and Spain was to become a rehearsal for the World War to come.

Having heard in yesterday's programme that some of the right wing journalists fabricated reports of Republican losses, in this fourth episode John Simpson turns his attention to the left wing promulgation of untruth by Communist correspondent, Claud Cockburn.

Producer: Neil Rosser
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