Counter-attack in Spain

Counter-attack in Spain
Author: Ramón José Sender
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1937
Genre: Spain
ISBN:

Personal narratives of the Spanish Civil War.

Counter-attack in Spain

Counter-attack in Spain
Author: Ramón José Sender
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1937
Genre: Spain
ISBN:

Personal narratives of the Spanish Civil War.

Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War

Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War
Author: Bernard O'Connor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2020-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0244850194

During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, paid young Spanish men to undertake over sixty sabotage attacks on military installations and shipping with limited success. The Italian Decima Flotilla MAS, a specialist team of underwater frogmen, launched eight attacks which were relatively successful and Spanish Falangists made several unsuccessful attempts. The British Secret Intelligence Service endeavoured to stop or at least limit such attacks. Using contemporary files from the National Archives in Kew, autobiographies, biographies, histories and newspaper articles, this documentary history investigates the successes and failures of these attacks on Gibraltar and the roles played by intelligence officers, agents, double agents in discovering and preventing such acts. The book sheds light on an unusual and largely overlooked aspect of Gibraltar's history.

Defence of Madrid

Defence of Madrid
Author: Geoffrey Cox
Publisher: London : V. Gollancz
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1937
Genre: Madrid (Spain)
ISBN:

Modern Warfare in Spain

Modern Warfare in Spain
Author: James W. Cortada
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612341012

During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attaché Col. Stephen O. Fuqua of the U.S. Army, who had once held the rank of major general. His presence was highly unusual, for most military observers were less-experienced captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels. Fuqua’s reports contained important observations about Spanish armament and troop movements, and he managed to acquire Nationalist propaganda and information despite being situated entirely within Republican military lines. His reporting was considered so valuable that during World War II, Fuqua was tapped to be Time’s military commentator. Editor James W. Cortada brings Fuqua’s--and others’--insightful observations to light. The result is a volume of such immediacy that the reader feels transported to a time of great historical uncertainty amid the twentieth century’s great "dress rehearsal” for fascism and the conflagration of World War II.

The Battle for Spain

The Battle for Spain
Author: Antony Beevor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1103
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101201207

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences.

The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond

The Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond
Author: Kevin Ingram
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004447342

Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late Medieval Spain. Converso and Moriscos Studies examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.

The Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War
Author: Hugh Thomas
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 1488
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0718192931

Though more than half a century has passed since the Spaish Civil War began in 1936, it is still the subject of intense controversy. What was it that roused left wing sympathisers from all over the world to fight for a cause for which their governments would not give active support? In his famous history, Hugh Thomas presents an objective analysis of a conflict - where fascism and democracy, communism and Christianity, centralism and regionalism were all at stake - and which was a much an international civil war as a Spanish one.

Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650–1725

Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650–1725
Author: Timothy Paul Grady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317323858

Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial south-east America. This study is the first to tell the full story of this rivalry.