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Franco's Friends (Paperback)
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Franco's Friends (Paperback)
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Loot Price R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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Franco's Friends tells the little-known true story of how MI6
orchestrated the coup that brought General Franco to power in Spain
in 1936, leading to the Spanish civil war and 40 years of
right-wing dictatorship. It has long been known that a British
plane took Franco from the Canaries to Morocco at the start of his
coup. What is not known is the importance of his role and the
extent of the involvement of the British intelligence services.
Franco's Friends discloses a list of British secret agents who
helped engineer Franco's coup, that reads like a who's who of
British intelligence (including James Bond creator, Ian Fleming).
The book shows that MI6 continued working in Spain through to the
Second World War, putting together behind-the-scenes deals and
ensuring that the UK's interests were maintained. Crucially, MI6
even financed bribes paid to the Spanish generals by the British
naval attache in Madrid to keep Spain neutral, thus reaping the
benefits for Britain in 1939-45. Based on previously unknown
material from the National Archives, Imperial War Museum, the
British Library and private archives, this is one of the great
previously untold stories of the Second World War, revealing how
Britain made a dubious but difficult moral choice that would have
repercussions on the outcome of the Second World War.
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