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Operation Bribes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

Operation Bribes

This forensic study of recently opened documents in Britain’s National Archives reveals for the first time the details of an officially unnamed secret operation authorised by Winston Churchill in 1940 to keep Spain neutral in the Second World War through the financial manipulation of Spanish generals. Viñas focuses on the crucial roles played by the British ambassador in Madrid, Sir Samuel Hoare; the embassy’s naval attaché, Captain Alan Hillgarth and – hitherto unknown to Anglophone readers – the Spanish businessman, Juan March, perhaps one of the richest men in Spain at the time and a financial backer of the military conspirators sparking the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He identif...

Review of Current Military Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Review of Current Military Literature

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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Military Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Military Review

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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Studies in Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Studies in Intelligence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the ‘non-military’ aspects of British special operations in the Second World War. It details how SOE was established in the summer of 1940 to ‘set Europe ablaze’, as Churchill memorably put it. This was a task it was meant to achieve by detonating popular resistance against Axis rule, and nurturing ‘secret armies’, which might be capable of providing military and other forms of assistance for British forces when they were once again able to return to the offensive and conduct land operations in Europe. The importance of the collection, however, goes beyond merely illuminating aspe...

The Politics of Revenge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

The Politics of Revenge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.

Special Operations Executive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Special Operations Executive

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the Imperial War Museum in 1998. The release of many records then allowed historians to develop the first authoritative analyses of the organization’s activities and several of its agents and staff officers were able to participate. Since this groundbreaking conference, fresh research has continued and its original papers are here amended to take account of the full range of SOE documents that have been ...

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-01-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Centuryexamines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day. Spanish history is necessarily international, with the significance of Spain's neutrality in the First World War and the global influences on the outcome of the Spanish Civil War. Taking the Defeat in the Spanish American war of 1898 as a starting point, the book includes surveys on: *the crisis of neutrality during the First World War *foreign policy under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera *the allies and the Spanish Civil War *Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain *Spain and the Cold War *relations with the United States This book traces the important topic of modern Spanish diplomacy up to the present day

Stewart Parker
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Stewart Parker

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-06
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation. Other aspects of his personal history, though, such as the amputation of his left leg at age 19, helped to create an extraordinarily perceptive observer and commentator. Steeped in American popular culture as a child and young adult, he spent five years teaching in the United States before returning to Belfast in August 1969, the same week British troops responded to sectarian disturbances there. Parker had developed a sense of writing as a form of political action in the highly charged ...

A World at Arms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1216

A World at Arms

A truly global account of WWII - the war that encompassed six continents.