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Franco, Francisco, --- Spain --- History

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"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 himself from the Axis cause and eventually embrace that of the Allies. Starting from a virtually non-existent base, the British rapidly built up a complex intelligence network in Spain that stretched from Corunna to Barcelona and from Bilbao to Gibraltar. As Spain was a non-belligerent, spy networks--including those of the Germans, Italians, Portuguese and British--proliferated in the Iberian Peninsula. Double-agents abounded within these networks; each one knew what the others were up to. The British exploited this two-way traffic to let Franco know that if he did not accede to their demands, they would back a restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Don Juan. This pressure culminated in the meeting of 1943 between Franco and the British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare, at the dictator's country retreat in Galicia, the British underlining their purpose by flying warplanes close by the estate. Following this meeting, Franco almost immediately began to move away from the Axis powers and towards the Allies. The British swiftly dismantled their intelligence networks given that they had achieved their aim. Franco's expulsion of the German naval forces from Spanish ports and the denazification of the regime explains the benevolent attitude of the Allies towards the Spanish dictatorship after the war"--Provided by publisher.

World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Espionage, British --- Secret service --- Underground movements --- History --- Franco, Francisco, --- Great Britain --- Spain --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations

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A concise introduction to the Spanish Civil War and Franco's counter insurgency campaigns in Muslim North Africa

Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975. --- Generals -- Spain -- Biography. --- Heads of state -- Spain -- Biography. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Spain & Portugal --- Franco, Francisco, --- Bahamonde, Francisco Franco, --- Frānkū, al-Khinirālīsimū, --- Baamonde, Francisco Franco, --- Franco Bahamonde, Francisco, --- Franco y Bahamonde, Francisco, --- Andrade, Jaime de

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Drawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco's Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the negotiations and behind-the-scenes maneuvering among those involved in the Spanish publishing industry. Converging interests made strange bedfellows of the often left-wing authors and the staid officials appointed to stand guard over Francoist morality and to defend the supposed purity of Castilian Spanish. Between these two uneasily allied groups circulated larger-than-life real-world characters like the Barcelona publisher Carlos Barral and the all-powerful literary agent Carmen Balcells. The author details the fascinating story of how novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel García Márquez, and Manuel Puig achieved publication in Spain, and in doing so reached a worldwide market. This colorful account underpins a compelling claim that even the most innovative and aesthetically challenging literature has its roots in the economics of the book trade, as well as the institutions of government and the exigencies of everyday politics and ideology.

Censorship --- Spanish American fiction --- Book censorship --- Books --- Literature --- Literature and morals --- Anticensorship activists --- Challenged books --- Expurgated books --- Intellectual freedom --- Prohibited books --- Spanish American literature --- History --- Publishing --- Law and legislation --- Franco, Francisco, --- Bahamonde, Francisco Franco, --- Frānkū, al-Khinirālīsimū, --- Baamonde, Francisco Franco, --- Franco Bahamonde, Francisco, --- Franco y Bahamonde, Francisco, --- Andrade, Jaime de

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This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain.Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the rebuilding of Spanish gold reserves which helped Franco survive his (and Spain's) international ostracism between 1945 and 1950.This important book will interest scholars with an interest in contemporary European political history as well as those with a general interest in Spanish histor

World War, 1939-1945 --- Diplomatic history. --- Historiography --- Great Britain --- Spain --- Foreign relations --- Churchill, Winston, --- Franco, Francisco, --- Bahamonde, Francisco Franco, --- Frānkū, al-Khinirālīsimū, --- Baamonde, Francisco Franco, --- Franco Bahamonde, Francisco, --- Franco y Bahamonde, Francisco, --- Andrade, Jaime de --- Churchill, Winston --- Spencer-Churchill, Winston Leonard --- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer --- Churchill, Winston Spencer --- Churchill, Winston S. --- Cherchillʹ, Vinston, --- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, --- Chʻiu-chi-êrh, --- Warden, --- Chŭrchil, Uinstŭn, --- Ts'urts'il, Ṿinsṭon, --- Cherchillʹ, Uinston, --- צ׳רצ׳יל, וינסטון --- צ'רציל, וינסטון ס., --- צ'רצ'יל, וינסטון, --- تشرشل، ونستون، --- Čʻurčʻili, Uinston, --- Spencer Churchill, Winston,