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

Franco Bahamonde, General Francisco, represses Asturias uprising, commands Military Academy, suppresses October 1934 revolution, chief of general staff, opposition to Popular Front, meets Primo de Rivera, appointed to Canary Islands, role in coup ďétat, appearance, character, relations with Church, advance on Madrid, rise to power, his wife, brutality, role in early stages of war, and attack on Madrid, and international involvement in civil war, military strategy, and development of army, and Málaga campaign, angered at symbolic shelling of Madrid, continuing obsession with Madrid, and Jarama and Guadalajara offensives, and Basque campaign, British admiration for, and rivals’ deaths, declares Crusade, writers oppose, seizes power in nationalist struggle, and republican power struggle, and Estremadura offensive, confers with commanders, and Brunete offensive, and Aragón offensive, establishes state ideology, plans further offensive against Madrid, and battle of Teruel, foreign support for, relations with Mussolini, insistence on total victory, constitutes government, centralism, regime recognized, fails to attack Barcelona and orders advance on Valencia, declared captain-general and battle of Ebro and France, declares Spanish neutrality, and battle of Catalonia, publishes law of responsibilities, and surrender negotiations, congratulated by Pope, takes salute at victory parade, bodyguard, regime established, obsession with Freemasonry, Second World War strategy, meets Hitler, ends state of war, agrees on succession, death

Franco Bahamonde, Nicolás

Franco Bahamonde, Ramón

Franco-Salgado, Colonel

Freemasonry

Freemasons, Church’s hostility to, Quiepo de Llano as, shot

French Black Sea Fleet mutiny

French Communist Party

French Foreign Legion

French Resistance

French Revolution

French volunteers

Frente Rojo

Fried, Eugen (‘Clément’)

Friends of Durruti, issue leaflet

Friends of the Soviet Union

Fuenteovejuna

Fuentes de Ebro

Fugger, Major Count

Fusimañ, José

Gaikis, Jacob

Gal, General (Janos Galicz)

Galán, Captain Fermín

Galán, Colonel Francisco

Galán, Major José María

Galarza, General Ángel

Galicia, agriculture, autonomy, guerrilla operations

Galland, Adolf

Gamazo, Countess of

Gambara, General Gastone

Gamelin, General Maurice

Gandesa

Gandía

García Alix, Luis

García Atadell, Agapito, (Communist Youth leader)

García Escámez, Colonel Francisco

García Hernández, Captain Ángel

García Lorca, Federico

García Morato, Captain Joaquín

García Oliver, Juan, organizes militia, minister of justice, military tactics, and ‘events of May’, meeting in Paris

García Valiño, Colonel, and advance on Valencia, and battle of Ebro, and battle of Catalonia, represses anti-fascist rising

Garijo, Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio

Garvin, James, (Observer editor)

Gassol, Ventura

Gayman, Vital (‘Vidal’)

General Motors

Geneva

George VI, King

German Communist Party

German navy, see Admiral Graf Spee; Admiral Scheer; Deutschland; Leipzig

German volunteers

Germany, arms supplies, Nazi Olympics, role in Spanish Civil War, humiliation at Versailles, Stalin and, Spanish debts to, foreign policy, love of total war, Anschluss, influence over Italy, trade with Franco regime, concerns over French intentions, pact with Soviet Union, threat to Europe, troops enter Czechoslovakia, role of party in state, invades Poland, invades Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete, invades Soviet Union

Gerö, Erno (‘Pedro’)

Gerona

Gestapo

Getafe

Gibraltar, nationalist sympathies at, refugees in, British defence of, in Second World War

Gide, André

Gijón

Gil Robles, José María

Gillain, Nick

Giménez Arnau, José Antonio

Giral, José, administration, requests assistance from Stalin, government resigns, in Largo Caballero government, and despatch of gold reserves, and republican power struggle, in Negrín government, crosses into France, in exile

Girón, Domingo

Goded, General

Godoy, Manuel de

Goicoechea, Antonio

Goicoechea, Major

gold reserves, under republican control, removed from Spain, in Basque country, under Franco

Goldman, Emma

Gomá, Cardinal Archbishop

Gómez Morato, General

Gómez Recio, Jesús

Gómez, Paulino

Gómez-Jordana, General Francisco

González, Valentín, (see El Campesino)

González Inestal, Miguel

González Pando, Major

González Peñ, Ramón

Gorbea, Mount

Goriev, General Vladimir E. (‘Sancho’)

Göring, Hermann, supplies arms to Spain

Gorky, Maxim

Grafenwöhr training camp

Granada, military rising, political killings, guerrilla operations

Granadella

Grandi, Count Dino

Granollers

Greece

Group of Spanish Guerrillas

GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie)

Gruppe Droehne, see Condor Legion

Guadalajara, province of, battle of, (also known as Battle of Brihuega), further offensive

Guadarrama, River

Guadiana, River

Guernica, bombing of, casualty figures, Basque autonomy declared in

guerrilla warfare, under Franco regime

Guipúzcoa province

Guipuzkoa (trawler)

Gurney, Jason

Gurs

Haldane, J. B. S.

Halifax, Lord, (later Earl of)

Hamburg

Hart, Basil Liddell

Hedilla, Manuel