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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Tác giả chính: Grandío Seoane, Emilio (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.
Loạt:Sussex studies in Spanish history.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1539180
Mục lục:
  • 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.