Photo, left:  Juan Negrín y López; 3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish politician and physician. He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and served as finance minister. He was the last Loyalist premier of Spain (1937–39), and presided over the defeat of the Republican forces by the Nationalists under General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. He collaborated with the Communists until the last minute; he died in exile in Paris, France.  The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española), widely known in Spain simply as The Civil War (Guerra Civil) or The War (La Guerra), took place from 1936 to 1939 and was fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratic, left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a falangist group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists won, and Franco then ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from April 1939 until his death in November 1975.  The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, originally under the leadership of José Sanjurjo, against the elected, leftist government of the Second Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña. The Nationalist group was supported by a number of conservative groups, including the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, or CEDA), monarchists such as the religious conservative (Catholic) Carlists, and the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista, a fascist group. Sanjurjo was killed in an aircraft accident while attempting to return from exile in Portugal, whereupon Franco emerged as the leader of the Nationalists. (See: en.wikipedia[dot]org/wiki/Juan_Negr%C3%ADn)
 
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 1, Block A: Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel..., by Sean B. Carroll (1 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 1, Block B:  Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel..., by Sean B. Carroll (2 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 1, Block C: Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel..., by Sean B. Carroll (3 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 1, Block D:  Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel..., by Sean B. Carroll (4 of 4)
 
Hour Two
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 2, Block A:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (1 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 2, Block B:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (2 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 2, Block C:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (3 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 2, Block D:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 3, Block A:  Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes (1 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 3, Block B:  Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes (2 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 3, Block C:  Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes (3 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 3, Block D: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made, by Richard Rhodes (4 of 4)
 
 
Hour Four
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 4, Block A:  The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America,by Ed Offley (1 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 4, Block B:  The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America,by Ed Offley (2 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 4, Block C:  The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America,by Ed Offley (3 of 4)
Sunday 14 February 2016  / Hour 4, Block D:  The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America,by Ed Offley  (4 of 4)
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