Franco's international brigades : adventurers, fascists, and christian crusaders in the Spanish Civil War / Christopher Othen.

Earlier edition has subtitle: Foreign volunteers and fascist dictators in the Spanish Civil War.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: European Civil War -- Mola's coup d'etat: 17 July 1936/31 March 1937 -- Kings and conspiracies: the plot to overthrow Spanish democracy -- Storm over Europe: Britain and the coup in Morocco -- We are going to spain to die: the recruitment campaign in north africa -- The comedian meets the carpet chewer: reaching out to the Third Reich and Fascist Italy -- Air power: German and Italian aeroplanes in Spanish skies -- Flowering rifles: Rupert Bellville in Andalusia -- The Carlist from Cambridge: Peter Kemp arrives in Spain -- We can't have reds in Portugal at the moment: Dr. Antønio de Oliveira Salazar and the Spanish question -- The dream and lie of Franco: non-intervention, the Alcøzar of Toledo, and more British volunteers -- Welsh Legionnaire: Frank Thomas on the Madrid front -- Holy crusade: King Carol II's Romania and the Legion of the Archangel Michael -- Holiday in Spain: General Eoin O'Duffy and the Irish Brigade -- The Cliffs of Titulcia: the Irish Brigade in the front line -- Franco's Civil War: 1 April 1937/1 April 1939 -- The devil's own frying pan: the Legion Condor, the Corpo Truppe Volontarie, and Guernica -- Russia, one and indivisible: double cross in the Paris of Russian exiles -- Hedilla at 120 kilometres an hour: the Falangist revolt in Salamanca -- Viva Francia!: France and the Spanish Civil War -- Remember the Irishmen in Spain: the last days of General O'Duffy's Brigade -- For the wrong reasons: international Fascism, South America, and Spain -- Bullet in the head: Rupert Bellville, Peter Kemp, and the Polish right -- Yow hi! brudder Europeans: Moroccan atrocities and republican racism -- The crimes of Captain Courcier: unrest and desertion in Jeanne d'Arc -- Carne de canon: Peter Kemp, the international brigades, and the Battle of the Ebro -- The horror and the heartbreak: end of the Spanish Republic -- Aftermath: the Second World War 1939/45.