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

Barrón y Ortiz, Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Fernando, and Jarama offensive, and Guadarrama offensive, and Brunete offensive, and Aragón offensive, and battle of Ebro and peace negotiations

Barroso, Colonel Antonio

Basque army, see Euzko Godarostea

Basque country, Catholicism nationalism, autonomy, military rising, republicans hold, clergy shot, Church left untouched, separatism, flag, ambivalence towards Republic, nationalist advances in, military zone, independent army established, campaign in, class divisions, industry, treatment of prisoners, naval actions, relations with Valencia government, continuing war with Franco regime, government in Barcelona, arms factories

Basque language

Basque Nationalist Party, see PNV Bastico, General Ettore

Batet Mestres, General Domingo

battle shock

Bautista Sánchez, Colonel (later General)

Juan

Bayo Girón, Alberto

Beckett, Samuel

Behn, Sosthenes

Beigbeder, Colonel

Beimler, Hans

Belchite, battle of

Bell, Julian

Belloc, Hilaire

Ben Mizzian, Major Mohamed

Beorleguí y Canet, Major Alfonso

Berenguer Fusté, General Dámaso

Bergamin, José

Bergonzoli, General Annibale

Beria, Lavrenti

Berlin, axis with Rome, Red Army in, reports to, Largo Caballero interrogated

Bernal García, General Carlos

Bernanos, Georges

Berneri, Camillo

Berti, General Mario

Berzin, General Jan (‘Grishin’)

Besteiro, Julián, presides over Cortes, warnings against civil war, visits London, opposition to Negrín government, death

Bevin, Ernest

Bianco, Vincenzo (‘Krieger’)

Bilbao, general strike disturbances, military rising, threatened by nationalists, defence of, republican navy in, blockade of, nationalists reluctant to bomb, evacuation, nationalists enter, under Franco

Bilbao, Ángel Crescenciano

Bilbao, Tomás

Biscay, Bay of

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

Bizkaya (trawler)

Blanco, Segundo

Blomberg, General Werner von

Blue Division (División Azul)

Blum, Léon

Boadilla del Monte

Bocheau, Pierre

Bodosakis-Athanasiades, Prodromos

Bolín, Luis, and international support for nationalists, and Franco’s rise to power, propaganda efforts

Borbón-Parma, Prince Javier de

Bordighera

Borjas Blancas

Borkenau, Franz

Bosch Gimpera, Pere

Bowers, Claude

Bram

Bramhill (ship)

Brasillach, Robert

Brecht, Bertolt

Brenan, Gerald

Breton, André

Brigada Aérea Hispana

Brigada Social

Brihuega, battle of, (see Guadalajara, battle of)

Britain, role in Spanish Civil War, fear of communism, Abdication crisis, prejudices, naval power, Stalin and, and International Brigades, fear of air attacks, reluctance to take sides, perceptions of Spanish Civil War, foreign policy, shifting sympathies, failure to halt air raids, failure to assist Catalans, treaty with Italy, puts pressure on nationalists, recognizes Franco regime, ignores requests for evacuation, restricts immigration, planned German invasion

British Communist Party

British Union of Fascists

British volunteers

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Broz, Josip (‘Tito’)

Brunete, battle of losses at, propaganda about, mistakes at

Buchenwald (concentration camp)

Buckley, Henry

Buiza, Admiral Miguel

Bujaraloz

Bulgarian volunteers

Buñuel, Luis

Burgos prison riots, military rising, political killings, Franco government in, under Franco, march pasts

Burgos, Archbishop of

Burgos Law of Political Responsibilities

Burguete, General Ricardo

caballeristas, (supporters of Largo Caballero)

Cabanellas Ferrer, General Miguel, and Franco’s rise to power

Cabello, Cándido

Cabeza Grande, defence of

Cáceres, province of, guerrilla operations

Cádiz, Constitution of, province of, military rising, army landings, German, naval base

Calder, Alexander

Calvo Sotelo, José assassinated, as finance minister, admired by Eden, propaganda about

Camacho Benítez, Colonel Antonio

Cambó, Francesc

Camp Lukács, (International Brigade punishment camp)

Campbell, Roy

Campeche (ship)

Campilo (ship)

Campins Aura, General Miguel

Campos Guereta, Colonel Luis

Canadian volunteers

Canarias (nationalist cruiser)

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm

Canary Islands

Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio

Capa, Robert

Capdevielle, Juana

Carabanchel

carabineros

Cárdenas, Juan

Cárdenas, President Lázaro

Cardozo, Harold

Carlists (requetés), nineteenth-century revolts, begin military training, involvement in coup ďétat, barbarity, political killings, treatment of prisoners of war, politics, role in civil war, authoritarian values, and Franco’s rise to power, in attack on Madrid, military value and populist base, in Jarama offensive, fanatical chaplains, Navarrese brigades in nationalist power struggle, tercio of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, at battle of Teruel, in Aragón offensive, under Franco, in battle of Catalonia, and Franco regime, religious convictions

Carls, Admiral Rolf

Carrasco Amilibia, Colonel León

Carrillo, Santiago

Carrillo, Wenceslao

Cartagena, prison riots, republican naval base, gold reserves shipped from, bombed, republican fleet leaves

Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Casablanca

Casado López, Lieutenant-Colonel César