Thief-Taker General: The rise and fall of Jonathan Wild

Howson, Gerald

Hutchinson

It Takes a Thief: The Life and Times of Jonathan Wild

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The victory of fascism in Spain in 1936 set the stage for World War Two. As Gerald Howson argues in this startling and compelling new look at the Spanish Civil War, that victory was assured by the non-fascist European powers.
 When military officers and rich landowners rebelled against the left-wing Spanish government in 1936, the Spanish Republic found itself abandoned by other European nations. Hoping to prevent the escalation of the conflict into a world war, European leaders created an international arms embargo against Spain.
 Arms for Spain reveals that this embargo gave Franco's rebels an enormous advantage against the Republic. While hindering arms from reaching the Republic, it allowed Hitler and Mussolini to equip Franco with enough armaments to win. The Republic was thus forced to buy illegal arms from foreign officials who extorted huge bribes for arms they never delivered. Banks and arms traffickers also swindled the Spanish government, often sending unusable weapons. Russia, long believed to be the Republic's strongest supporter, was one of the worst offenders. The Soviets provided far less aid than has been thought and defrauded the Spanish government of millions of dollars by secretly manipulating the exchange rates.
 Through a unique combination of exhaustive research, forensic skills and technical expertise on armaments, Gerald Howson establishes that the arms embargo played a much greater part in the Republic's defeat than is usually acknowledged. In so doing, he casts one of the great political tragedies of the century in a wholly new light.

Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War

History

Europe

St.Martin's Press

John Murray

The Spanish Civil War was the key conflict of the era between the First and Second World Wars, used by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany to practice for the coming struggle. It provided the first experience of combat flying between opponents using advanced European aircraft since the First World War ended in 1918, and was studied carefully for its lessons. Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 fills a gap on the bookshelves of everyone interested in the history of military or civil aviation. For the first time, all the astonishingly varied types of aircraft that took part in the war are described in a single volume. There are explanatory sections on Spanish aviation before the war, the Civil War itself, the opposing air forces, with their large international contingents, and the camouflage and identity systems they adopted, the civil airlines, and the networks of agencies responsible for smuggling hundreds of aircraft into Spain in defiance of Non-Intervention, as well as lists of the many types and large numbers of aircraft employed by the two sides. ? ?Gerald Howson is an internationally respected scholar of the arms trade during the Spanish Civil War. He has also written the acclaimed book Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War.? ?

AIRCRAFT OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939: revised edition

Military

Putnam Aeronautical

Since most of the 3,500 aircraft used in the Spanish Civil War were smuggled into the country, only recently have archives opened, lost records surfaced, and people found it safe to tell their stories. Over 280 types of aircraft used by the opposing forces are described, and their part in the war detailed. Most are illustrated with photographs. Aircraft built in most of the industrial countries took part, many of them prototypes, one-of-a-kind, and racing and record-setting planes. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

AIRCRAFT SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Smithsonian

Armas para España: La historia no contada de la Guerra Civil española

Americas

Ediciones Península

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