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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Grandío Seoane, Emilio (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.
Cyfres:Sussex studies in Spanish history.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.3079004
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.