In the summer of 2012 Sarah Inglis went to England on a research mission to the Liddell Hart Military Archive at Kings College, London. "They have  a whole bunch of pretty much untouched documents that go back to the start of the Second World War and the Special Forces," says Inglis, now starting a graduate degree under the supervision of History professor André Gerolymatos. Her trip was financed in part by an Undergraduate Student Research Grant from the Office of the VP Research. Gerolymatos is writing a new book on the history of Special Forces for Yale University Press, and Inglis was doing some of the background research. 

"I was Looking at documents of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive," says Inglis who gathered primary source documents such as diaries, memoirs, military plans, and operations reports, making photocopies to bring back for analysis. She also visited the Imperial War Museum in London in search of British views of the Americans in WWII. "They generally despised Americans, but a few thought very highly of them," says Inglis. 

After several weeks in England, Inglis traveled to Madrid, Salamanca and Avila, Spain to explore various archives in search of information on Greek-Spanish relations from 1936-41, when Greece was under the dictator Metaxas. Again, she was helping her supervisor, Gerolymatos, who is revising his book Red Acropolis, Black Terror, about the Greek civil war in the 1940s. "We were looking at how these two nations were interacting during the time of the Spanish Civil War. They both had dictators, Franco and Metaxas," says Inglis. Her focus is on international brigades and arms dealing. 'Through arms dealing records, you can find out the connections between Greece and how they provided arms for the Spanish Civil War," says Inglis. It turns out that the notorious arms dealer and owner of GPCC (Gun Powder and Cartridge Company) of Greece, Bodosakis, was a close friend of Mataxas. He was able to get guns via Goering who could not sell guns to the Spanish Republic. "Bodosakis sold the guns from Goering to the Republic at double the price," says Inglis. In this way the Germans armed both the fascists and the communists in the Spanish Civil War.

Inglis's thesis will be about Greek volunteers who went to fight for the Spanish Republic and how they had their own military company of about 250 men. She's interested in what became of these men after the company was disbanded in 1937 at the battle of Belchite where half of them died. "I'm trying to discover if another Greek company was created in its place," says Inglis.