Eighty-five years ago today, Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War. In an interview, historian Paul Preston tells Jacobin about the decisive role that Franco’s sympathizers in the British government played in crushing Spanish democracy.
A good addition to this book would be:
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam
You can find the book here and here (original publisher, which I recommend).
The book is about how Britain, United States, and France were trying to isolate the Soviet Union and the communist bloc and pit Germany and Italy against the Soviet Union.