Operation Bribes

This forensic study of recently opened documents in Britain's National Archives reveals for the first time the details of an officially unnamed secret operation authorized by Winston Churchill in 1940 to keep Spain neutral in World War II through the financial manipulation of Spanish generals.

Auteur

Ángel Viñas is an Emeritus Professor at the University Complutense Madrid. He is also a former adviser to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, a director of the European Commission and the EU's ambassador to the United Nations, and the author of numerous books on Spanish history.

Richard Carswell is the author of The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory (2019) and the translator of The Man Who Murdered Admiral Darlan (2024) by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon.