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The maze of political intransigence and rogues' gallery of utter contemptibles Howson presents would be comical if their effect was not so, literally, deadly. The worst offenders would appear to be the Russians, who agreed to house the family silver (or rather, gold) for the Republicans, only to annex it at a ridiculously low rate by way of a smokescreen of exchange rates and bureaucracy. They were not the only ones, and at least they supplied something; the "Non Intervention" policy of the British and French merely allowed Hitler and Mussolini to continue supplying the Nationalists while the Republican effort was strangulated.
In the 1930s it was widely believed that the next war would be won in the air. The obsolete junk that did find its way to Spanish Republicans had no chance of securing victory, and rather, Howson contends, sunk their hopes. He has written a passionate, persuasive book, with occasional quirkiness, of the shenanigans and skullduggery of international arms trafficking, which is as sadly relevant today as in 1936. --David Vincent
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