Naval Operations in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

No nation lives in a vacuum. The Spanish Civil War of1936-39 was a product of the admixture of converging indigenous tensions and the plight of the broader civilization of which the Spanish people form a part. The maritime war remained throughout the Spanish conflict the result of just such a confluence of Spanish and foreign decisions, forces, and actions. This combination was a crucial element in the course and outcome of the Spanish war and an integral factor in Europe\u27s downslide toward the Second World War

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Armada espanola, siglo XX. 4 vols

Multinational Naval Cooperation in the Spanish Civil War, 1936

The greatest episode of multinational naval cooperation in the interwar years took place in the early months of the bitter Spanish Civil War of 1936-39

Misperception and Incidents at Sea: The Deutschland and Leipzig Crises, 1937

After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, most of the major naval powers, along with a few lesser states, sent and kept warships in Spanish waters