Foes to Friends. Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom from the Civil War to the Cold War

Was Franco's Spain really a pariah in the Anglosphere? This book examines pro-Francoism and the significant influence of a "Spanish lobby" in shaping US and British policy towards Spain during the Second World War and the years leading up to the Pact of Madrid in 1953. This lobby included not only pressure groups but also legislators and members of the executive as well as the armed forces, who shared economic and strategic interests and ideological sympathies in the growing anti-Communist atmos