Alpert has delivered a thorough, well-researched, and well-written product of an underappreciated event in twentieth-century Western history. Those interested in the aviation history and the interwar period, as well as those who would like to learn more about the development of what are now called joint operations . would benefit from reading this book. H-War
PrefaceThe Spanish Civil War BeginsOff to Spain: The Germans ArriveFascist Italy's Aircraft Create an International CrisisFrance Sends AircraftThe Russians ArriveThe Condor Legion and the Campaign in the North of SpainThe Fall of Bilbao and the End of the War in the North of SpainThe Spanish War Moves to the EastThe Battle of the EbroConclusionsBibliography
Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Westminster, UK.