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

Jurado, Colonel Enrique

Juventud Socialista Unificada (Unified Socialist Youth)

Juventudes Comunistas Ibéricas, (POUM youth movement)

Kaminski, H., (French observer)

Karmen, Roman

Kemp, Peter

Kennedy, Joseph

Kerensky, Aleksander

Kindelán y Duany, General Alfredo, proposes Franco as nationalist commander, sidelined by Italians, and Franco regime

Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone

Kléber, General Emilio (Lazar Stern), and battle of Corunna road, visits Moscow, and Guadarrama offensive, concern over International Brigades, and Aragón offensive

Koestler, Arthur

Koltsov, Mikhail

Komsomol (ship)

Kondratiev, Colonel

Krivitsky, General Walter

Krivoshein, Colonel

Kronstadt rising

Kühlental, General

Kursk, battle of

Kuznetsov, Admiral Nikolai (‘Kolya’)

La Batalla (POUM newspaper)

la Cierva, Juan de

La Fatarella

La Felguera

La Granja de San Ildefonso

La Línea

La Mancha

La Marañosa

la Mora, Constancia de

La Muela de Teruel

La Pasionaria, see Ibárruri, Dolores

la Puente Bahamonde, Major Ricardo de

La Rochelle, Drieu

La Vanguardia

La Venta de Camposines

Labonne (French ambassador)

Lacalle, Colonel

Landrieu, Pierre

Langdon-Davies, John

Langenheim (Nazi businessman)

Larache

Largo Caballero, Francisco, xxviii, joins Primo de Rivera government, serves in republican government, radicalization, assassination attempt, and communists, in ‘government of unity’ and uniform contracts, and militias, forms government, and defence of Madrid, and battle of Corunna road, and Málaga campaign, instructions from Stalin, policy of centralization, and republican power struggle, leaves government, and Estremadura offensive, war policy, and shipment of gold reserves, sidelined and moved to Barcelona, in opposition to Negrín, death

Larios, Margarita

Larrañga, Jesús

Las Heulgas monastery

Las Palmas

Law, Oliver

Law of the Press

Law of Political Responsibilities

Laycock, Colonel Robert

Le Boulu

Le Havre

Le Perthus

League of Nations

Lebrun, Albert

Leclerc, General

Ledesma Ramos, Ramiro

Ledochovsky, Vladimir

Legionary Air Force, and battle for Madrid, strength, and battle of Jarama, in Basque campaign, in Guadalajara offensive,

bombing of Alcañiz, and battle of Ebro

Leipzig (German cruiser)

Leizaola, Jesús María (minister of justice)

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, xxix

Leningrad

Leon Maestre, Colonel

Léon, agriculture, guerrilla operations

León, María Teresa

Lepanto (republican destroyer)

Lequerica, José Félix de

Lérida

Lerroux, Alejandro, in government

Levante

ley de fugas

Lézardrieux (ship)

Libertad (republican cruiser)

Libertarian Youth

Lisbon

Líster, Enrique, and defence of Madrid, and Corunna road battles, personal qualities, and battle of Jarama, and battle of Guadalajara, and Brunete offensive, and Aragón offensive, recriminations, and battle of Ebro, and battle of Catalonia, leaves Spain

Litvinov, Maksim

Llano de la Encomienda, General Francisco

Lliga Catalana

Logronño

Lojendio, Luis M. de

London, Bolín’s activities in, meetings of Non-Intervention Committee, approval of Negrín, peace overtures, recognition of Franco regime, Negrín in exile

Longo, Luigo (‘Gallo’)

Lorca, (poet), see García Lorca, Federico

Lopera

López, Anita

López, Juan

López Ochoa y Portuondo, General Eduardo

López Tovar, Colonel Vicente

los Andes, Count de

Los Dolores

Los Llanos, (airfield)

los Ríos, Fernando de

los Ríos, Giner de

Louis XIII of France, King

Louis XIV of France, King

Louis XVIII of France, King

Low Countries

Luca de Tena, Marquess Juan Ignacio

Lufthansa

Luftwaffe, personnel, develops aircraft and tactics in Spain, and battle for Madrid, fears losing Stukas, Second World War aces, aircraft trials, attack refugees, see also Condor Legion

Lukács, General, (Mata Zalka Kemeny)

MacDiarmid, Hugh

Machado, Antonio

Macià Lluís Companys, Francesc

Madariaga, Salvador de

Madrid, ‘Second of May’ rising, general strike, arson attacks, mass meetings, comedy Theatre, province of, assassinations, May Day parade, military rising, political killings, nationalist advance and republican defence, hotels, military base, formation of Largo Caballero government, Soviet representation in, fifth column, effect of government’s flight, fighting around, hospitals, front, shelled, conditions in, journalists in, International Writers’ Congress for the Defence of Culture, police school established, Verardini arrested, republican, struggle in POUM leaders imprisoned in, and Brunete offensive, spy network, communist conference, coup against Negrín, secret nationalist organization, National Council established, fighting among republicans, surrender, nationalist troops enter, victory parade, black market, guerrilla operations

Madrid University

Maeztu, Ramiro de

Maginot Line

Maisky, Ivan, (Russian ambassador)

Majadahonda

Majorca, nationalists invade, provides nationalist base, nationalist terror

Makaseev, Boris

Málaga, military rising, political killings, campaign and fall, executions

Maldonado, Professor Francisco

Malinovsky, Colonel R. (‘Malino’)

Mallorca, see Majorca

Malraux, André, L’Espoir

Mamsourov, Ku. U. (Colonel Xanthé)