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Churchill and Spain

Churchill and Spain

Wigg, Richard

Paperback

Series: Lse Studies in Spanish History, Book 12

International RelationsSpainish & Portuguese HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1845192834
ISBN13: 9781845192839
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Jul 1 2008
Pages: 253
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. Churchill and Spain examines why Franco's regime was alone among Europe's Big Three Fascist dictatorships in being able to survive beyond the end of the Second World War, and to what extent Churchill's wartime policies enabled Franco to remain in control of Spain. Richard Wigg draws upon Foreign Office documents and reports -- many of which remained secret until the 1990s or only became available in 2005 under the UK Freedom of Information Act -- and the wartime papers of Churchill and Samuel Hoare, Britain's special envoy to Madrid, to investigate this important aspect of Spanish and British history. The book explores the political, economic and diplomatic relations between Spain and Britain during the Second World War and explains how Churchill's lenient policies towards Franco helped significantly in the survival of Franco's regime after the war. In particular, this work demonstrates how the tolerance shown towards Spain's wartime trading in wolfram allowed the rebuilding of the country's gold reserves, which proved crucial in enabling Franco's Spain to endure post-war international isolation. This book, originally published to great acclaim in 2005, and published now for the first time as a paperback, is essential reading for scholars and students of European twentieth-century history, as well as all those interested in Churchill's international role in the Second World War.

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