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

by Pierpaolo Barbieri

Book Overview

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 Pierpaolo Barbieri revises this standard account of Axis intervention in the Spanish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674728858
• ISBN13: 9780674728851
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"