Armas para la República

The non-intervention policy promoted by France and Great Britain during the Spanish Civil War decisively conditioned access to international arms markets by the Republic. While the rebels benefited from supply and collaboration, more or less covert, from Italy, Germany and Portugal, the republican authorities were forced to resort to intermediaries and the black market and, ultimately, a growing dependence on supplies was inevitable. shipped from the Soviet Union. The historian Miguel Campos reconstructs the republican efforts to overcome, between July 1936 and May 1937, the absurd military strangulation dictated by the democratic powers. In an exhaustive and documented manner, the loyal servants of the Republic are vindicated, whose success was often hampered by the desperate war situation and the lack of expertise and knowledge of some of their envoys, victims of the opportunism of professional swindlers, shady traffickers and even from official emissaries who did not hesitate to fill their pockets. In addition, Weapons for the Republic reconstructs the maneuvers of the networks and agents of the rebels and of the spies and diplomats of their allies to sabotage contracts and prevent many of the deliveries by force. A capital investigation to understand the undeniable and decisive international dimension of the Spanish civil war.