This study examines why Francisco Franco s regime was alone among Europe s Big Three Fascist dictatorships in being able to survive beyond the end of the Second World War, and to what extent Winston Churchill s wartime policies enabled Franco to remain in control of Spain. Author Richard Wigg draws upon Foreign Office documents and reports many of which remained secret until the 1990s or only became available in 2005 under the UK Freedom of Information Act and the wartime papers of Churchill and Samuel Hoare, Britain s special envoy to Madrid, to investigate this important aspect of Spanish...