Franco's international brigades : adventurers, fascists, and Christian crusaders in the Spanish Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Othen, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Edition:[Revised and expanded edition].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: European Civil War
  • Mola's coup d'etat: 17 July 1936/31 March 1937
  • Kings and conspiracies: the plot to overthrow Spanish democracy
  • Storm over Europe: Britain and the coup in Morocco
  • We are going to spain to die: the recruitment campaign in north africa
  • The comedian meets the carpet chewer: reaching out to the Third Reich and Fascist Italy
  • Air power: German and Italian aeroplanes in Spanish skies
  • Flowering rifles: Rupert Bellville in Andalusia
  • The Carlist from Cambridge: Peter Kemp arrives in Spain
  • We can't have reds in Portugal at the moment: Dr. Antønio de Oliveira Salazar and the Spanish question
  • The dream and lie of Franco: non-intervention, the Alcøzar of Toledo, and more British volunteers
  • Welsh Legionnaire: Frank Thomas on the Madrid front
  • Holy crusade: King Carol II's Romania and the Legion of the Archangel Michael
  • Holiday in Spain: General Eoin O'Duffy and the Irish Brigade
  • The Cliffs of Titulcia: the Irish Brigade in the front line
  • Franco's Civil War: 1 April 1937/1 April 1939
  • The devil's own frying pan: the Legion Condor, the Corpo Truppe Volontarie, and Guernica
  • Russia, one and indivisible: double cross in the Paris of Russian exiles
  • Hedilla at 120 kilometres an hour: the Falangist revolt in Salamanca
  • Viva Francia!: France and the Spanish Civil War
  • Remember the Irishmen in Spain: the last days of General O'Duffy's Brigade
  • For the wrong reasons: international Fascism, South America, and Spain
  • Bullet in the head: Rupert Bellville, Peter Kemp, and the Polish right
  • Yow hi! brudder Europeans: Moroccan atrocities and republican racism
  • The crimes of Captain Courcier: unrest and desertion in Jeanne d'Arc
  • Carne de canon: Peter Kemp, the international brigades, and the Battle of the Ebro
  • The horror and the heartbreak: end of the Spanish Republic
  • Aftermath: the Second World War 1939/45.