About the Author

Stanley Payne is Hilldale-Jaune Vicens Vives Professor of History Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a world authority on the history of European fascism and is the author of many books on Spanish and modern European history, including The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism and The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936, both published by Yale University Press.

Reviews

"Franco and Hitler shatters many myths, especially those fostered by the Franco regime, concerning Spain's role in the conflict. It is compelling, iconoclastic, and insightful." Michael Seidman, author of "Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War"
--Michael Seidman"

"Franco and Hitler" is the crowning achievement of Payne s work which includes an impressive number of studies of Spain 1931-1945, a complex subject matter of which he is now the outstanding non-Spanish historian. John Lukacs
--John Lukacs"

"Stanley Payne has written an excellent study of the relations between Franco and his regime and the Germans during the years of the civil and world wars. Much of what he writes has been known in outline for a long time. But Payne has brought together the result of the latest research on this thorny topic to our great benefit, in a fascinating book." Hugh Thomas
--Hugh Thomas"

Stanley Payne is recognized as the most serious and informed foreign historian of modern Spain in a whole range of areas. Here he deals with a subject of considerable debate and makes a major contribution to European and Spanish history. Juan Linz, Yale University
--Juan Linz"

""Franco and Hitler" is the crowning achievement of Payne's work which includes an impressive number of studies of Spain 1931-1945, a complex subject matter of which he is now the outstanding non-Spanish historian."--John Lukacs
--John Lukacs

"Stanley Payne is recognized as the most serious and informed foreign historian of modern Spain in a whole range of areas. Here he deals with a subject of considerable debate and makes a major contribution to European and Spanish history."--Juan Linz, Yale University
--Juan Linz