This book is a study of the relations between the US and Spain, particularly during the period from 1943 to 1945, when the Roosevelt Administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to challenge the Pro-Franco Regime, culminating in the Battle of Wolfram and the embargo of petroleum products.

Autorentext
JOAN MARÍA THOMÁS ****Professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain.

Inhalt
Relations between the United States and Spain under Franco: from Pearl Harbor to the beginnings of the Battle of Wolfram (December 1941- September 1943) Return of Spain to neutrality and the beginnings of the Battle of Wolfram. The Laurel Incident (September- December 1943) The Battle of Wolfram (January-May 1944) Relations between the US and Spain from the Wolfram agreement till the end of the Second World War in Europe (May 1944- May 1945) United States and Spain from the end of the war in Europe till the start of diplomatic isolation of the Franco regime (May 1945- March 1947)