Francisco Franco

As Franco 's victory became imminent in the Spanish Civil War, creating a flow of Republican refugees in appalling conditions, ER chartered a ship to run the blockade and bring off as many as...

Talking to Cunard in London during the war, Cecily Mackworth reported: I could feel her contained rage, like a saucepan about to boil over. Even the liberation of France from the Nazis , it...

RL participated in a deputation to Neville Chamberlain the Prime Minister and other politicians, calling for arms to be sent to the Republican government in Spain to help in the fight against Franco .

They were allowed to take a single suitcase each; they left their pets and their printing press behind. Riding had no idea, however, that she would be leaving for ever. They reached England via Valencia...

Many of the characters are foreign journalists in Spain (though the heroine, Raquel, is Spanish, and as delightful as I could make her). To preserve the journalists' anonymity AB named them all after...

The title is the name by which this proposition of Ockham's is generally known. It is...

The book offers a detailed analysis of William Joyce 's and John Amery 's trials for high treason for their pro-Nazi broadcasts during the war.

In this book O'Brien affirms her own sense of her identity as Catholic, yet outspokenly expresses opposition to the Catholic dictatorship of General Franco . She had no interest in Moorish Spain, but...

CM spent a winter and a spring in Malaga, with no idea that she was watching the last, faltering footsteps of Franco 's Spain, but finding the country more remote from the rest of...