ANGEL VINAS AND THE HISTORY OF THE SPANISH SECOND REPUBLIC AT WAR

The last four years of the ceaseless and brilliant work of Angel Vinas is reviewed, during which time he has become, with his monumental trilogy on the foreign policy of the II Republic, the best and most documented living Spanish historian regarding the hopeful and dramatic trajectory of the first Spanish democracy at war. Along with that trilogy, it must be added his study on the final collapse of that regime, the functioning, of its, until now little-known, Foreign Service and his critical publication and preliminary study of the memoirs of the Spanish ambassador in London during the Civil War. All of the foregoing attests to the priceless contribution of this outstanding researcher to the prestige of Spanish historiography.