Examines Franco's relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, this book makes use of two major sources: the German Admiralty's archives, stunning in their evidence of Franco's support; and the Spanish press, operating under a totalitarian regime and yearning for an Axis victory to the bitter end.

Autorentext
DAVID WINGEATE PIKE was born in England and educated at Blundell's School, McGill University and Universidad Interamericana Mexico. He received doctorates from the Université de Toulouse and Stanford University, where he served as Assistant Director at the Institute of hispanic American and Luso-Brasilian Studies. He is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History and Politics at The American University of Paris and Director of Research at the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy.

Inhalt
Introduction The Civil War and France: Unsettled Accounts (19361940) From Franco's Victory to the Fall of France (1 April 193915 June 1940) Vichy France and Britain's Battle for its Life (JuneSeptember 1940 Hitler's Quandary: Southwest or East? (September 1940June 1941 From Barbarossa to Pearl Harbor (22 June7 December 1941) War in the Mediterranean (JanuaryNovember 1942 Fortunes Reversed: Operation Torch and Italian Capitulation (8 November 19423 September 1943) The Tightening of the Allied Vice (3 September 19436 June 1944) From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge (6 June 1944December 1944) The Death of Hope (January 1945May 1945 Epilogue: Duplicity Rewarded Notes Appendices Bibliography