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Franco And Hitler: Spain, Germany And World War Ii By Stanley G Payne

Posted at 6:04PM Thursday 13 Mar 2008

To this day, imbecile right-wing pundits – some of them British – pay homage to Franco's statesmanship and the "sound" governance of his country. In truth, as Stanley Payne's book emphasises, Spain's abstention from the second world war was the product of clumsy diplomacy rather than of wisdom.

Times review

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