Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain

<p>This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill''s policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain.</p><p>Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain''s wartime trading permitted the rebuilding of Spanish gold reserves which helped Franco survive his (and Spain''s) international ostracism between 1945 and 1950.<br><br>This important book will interest scholars with an interest in contemporary European political history as well as those with a general interest in Spanish history.</p>