The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Algeciras, Conference of

Alhucemas

Alianza Obrera

Alianza Republicana

Alicante, political killings, Primo de Rivera held in, Negrín government in, Vega appointed governor, provides last republican refuge, refugees leave, prison

Allen, Jay

Allison-Peers, Professor E.

Almería

Almirante Cervera (nationalist cruiser)

Almirante Fernández (republican destroyer)

Almirante Valdés (republican destroyer)

Alonso, Bruno

Alonso, Colonel Martín

Alonso Vega, Colonel (later General) Camilo

Alto de los Leones

Álvarez Arenas, General Eliseo

Álvarez del Vayo, Julio, foreign minister, commissar- general, conflict with Largo, Caballero, controls censorship, protests to League of Nations, replaced, considers negotiation impossible, leaves Spain

Álvarez, Jesús

Amadeo of Savoy

Amado, Andrés,(minister of finance, American volunteers, mutiny

Amposta

anarchism

Andalucia, agriculture, anarchism, latifundia, general strike, disturbances, support for Carlists, military rising, political killings, commerce, under nationalist control, peasants, guerrilla operations, front, ‘white terror, stronghold ofseñoritos, development of trade

Andersson, Conny

Andradé, Benigno

Andújar

Anger, Karl

Annual, battle of (1921)

Anschluss

anti-clericalism

Antifascist Women’s Committee

Antón, Francisco

Antona, David

Antonov-Ovseyenko, Vladimir

Aragón, military rising, nationalists hold, clergy in, self- government, industry and agriculture, Council of, militias, political groupings, front, relations with republican government, offensives, destruction of collectives, guerrilla warfare

Aragon, Louis

Aranda Mata, Colonel (later General, secures Oviedo, on northern front, and battle of Teruel, and Aragón offensive, and advance on Valencia, and Franco regime

Aranjuez

Araquistaín Quevedo, Luis

Arenys de Mar

Ares del Maestre

Arganda

Argèles-sur-Mer

Argelia

Argentina

Arias Navarro, Carlos

Arleguí y Bayonés, General Miguel

Arles-sur-Tech

Arman, Captain Pavel

arms supplies, to nationalists, to republicans to Basque country

Army of Africa africanistas and mentality units transported to mainland strength advance in south-west contribution to nationalist victory advance on Madrid professionalism and effectiveness and Franco’s rise to power

Arquer, Jordi

Artesa de Segre

Ascanio, Major Guillermo

Ascaso, Domingo

Ascaso, Francisco

Ascaso, Joaquín

Ascó

Asensio Cabanillas, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Carlos, and attack on Madrid, and Jarama offensive, and Brunete offensive

Asensio Torrado, General

Assault Guard (asaltos) role in coup dďétat purged communist influence, in Basque country, in Catalonia

Asturias, general strike, 1934 rebellion under republicans military zone, Council of, fall of, guerrilla warfare, offensive arms factories

ateneos libertarios

Atholl, Katherine, Duchess of

atrocities, religious, republican, nationalist, corpses displayed, statistics, reporting of, by SIM

Aub, Max

Auden, W. H.

Auriol, Vincent

Auschwitz (concentration camp)

Austria

Auxilio Social

Aviazione Legionaria, see Legionary Air Force

Avila

Avilés

Azañ y Díaz, Manuel, heads republican party, minister of war, confrontation with Church, in government, imprisoned, president, saves monks, and Miaja’s communism, and defence of Bilboa, conversations monitored, and republican power struggle, and killing of Nin, pessimism and realism, protests to League of Nations, ‘unforgettable’ meeting with Negrín, bids farewell to International Brigades, crosses into France, resigns, and coup against Negrín, death

Azarola y Gresillón, Rear-Admiral

Antonio

Azcárete y Florez, Pablo de

Aznar, Admiral Juan Bautista

Badajoz, province of, massacre, guerrilla operations

Badalona

Badía, Josep

Badía, Miguel

Bahamonde y Sánchez de Castro, Antonio

Bailby, Léon

Bailén

Balaguer

Baldwin, Stanley, (later Earl)

Baleares (nationalist cruiser)

Balearic Islands

Banco de Españ

Banco de Vizcaya

Banco Nacional Agrario

banks, merchant, under Franco

Banque Commerciale pour l’Europe du Nord

Baquer, General Alonso

Baráibar, Carlos de

Barajas airfield

Barbastro

Barbieri, Franco

Barceló Jover, Major Luis

Barcelona, fin de siècle, Semana, Trágica (1909), disturbances, provisional government declared, military rising parliament reopened, assassinations, People’s Olympiad, political killings, under republicans, respect for buildings, hotels, deteriorating atmosphere and events of May (1937) German consulate anarchist strength, Soviet representation in, Azaña arrives, Durruti’s funeral, bombing of journalists, middle classes, prisons, newspapers, NKVD in,republican government in, Basque government in, spy network, reservoirs and power supplies, food shortages, demonstration against defeatism, Franco’s ambivalence over, fall of bridges, military parade, farewell parade for International Brigades, flight from city, fifth column miraculous Christ of Lepanto guerrilla operations

Barletta (Italian battleship)

Barrio, José del