A balancing act : British intelligence in Spain during the Second World War /

"This book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britain's secret services in Franco's Spain during the Second World War. The main claim of this study is that British pressure, exercised above all through their intelligence services, led Franco to distance him...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Grandío Seoane, Emilio (Údar)
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.
Sraith:Sussex studies in Spanish history.
Rochtain ar líne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1539180
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Introduction: "There is no alternative" : the British position in relation to Spain before the Second World War
  • British intelligence in Spain at the outset of the Second World War
  • The threat of German invasion : organizing the Resistance (spring of 1941)
  • Franco's most complicated year : 1943
  • Franco and the Allies face to face
  • Spain changes sides, 1944-1945
  • Glossary.