Icon of Sorrow

On Monday 26th April 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was subjected to an unprecedented barrage of horror as German and Italian planes blanket- bombed the city for three hours , reducing it to a burning fireball. Afterwards innocent civilians were indiscriminately mowed down by machine gun fire as they tried to escape the carnage by fleeing into the hills. Shock waves rippled round the world as […]