Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War

A revealing look at Nazi involvement in the Spanish Civil War, their economic ambitions, how it came to be, and how they operated.

Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco's Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance-a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes joining forces in the fight against global Bolshevism. In Hitler's Shadow Empire...