New International History of the Spanish Civil War

MICHAEL ALPERT is Principal Lecturer in Spanish Language and History at the University of Westminster. He has been researching into twentieth-century Spanish history for thirty years and has published three books and numerous articles on the Spanish Civil War from both the military-naval aspect and the international and British viewpoint. He has also written extensively on the Spanish army and internal politics. He has lectured on these subjects in Spain, the USA and France.

• Map Preface Prologue PART I Background Hitler and Mussolini: The Rhineland and Abyssinia The Communist Bogey Paris Blum and Spain London Gibraltar: Blum in London Paris Changes its Mind Germany Bernhardt Sees Hitler Operation 'Magic Fire' Rome Paris Non-Intervention Agreed Moscow Lisbon Conclusions PART II Limited Value of the Non-Intervention Agreement Early Meetings of the Non-Intervention Committee The British Labour Party and the TUC Italian Intervention Worries Britain The Russians Arrive At the Non-Intervention Committee The Conder Legion Italy and Germany Recognise Franco Italy Sends Troops to Franco German Economic Agreements with Franco Eden Reacts to Italian Reinforcements The League, Morocco and Mexico The United States The Naval Patrol War in the North The Blockade of Bilbao Guernica The Catholic Church and the Spanish War The Vatican PART III After Guadalajara The Deutschland and the Leipzig Incidents; the End of the Naval Patrol Nyon The Spanish Revolution Crushed Progress at Geneva and in the Withdrawal of Volunteers Teruel The Collapse of Spring 1938 German Economic Penetration The New Negrin Government Seeks Help Everywhere The Czech Crisis At the End Recent Scholarship Aftermath Major Actors References Bibliographical Note Bibliography Index

'A lucid and scholarly account of an important and immensely complex subject...Professor Alpert's command of a broad range of archival material, printed documents and secondary works in six languages is extremely impressive.' - Paul Preston, Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science