Paul Preston has created a wonderful profile on Franco, and this book has become the authoritive laymans guide to the only 20c Western European dictator to die peacefully in office.

Despite it’s initial size, this is a book that concisly explains the evolution of Franco from the early, eager military cadet to the cool, absent caudillo he became.

A wonderful book that reads more like a novel than a historical text, and I devoured it.

See Franco: A Biography on amazon.co.uk

See also...

• December 9, 2008 -- Franco still honorary mayor of Almeria!!!
• November 29, 2008 -- Franco no longer “favourite son” of El Ferrol
• November 3, 2008 -- Spain invades Portugal to stop Communism (maybe?)
• August 4, 2008 -- How to live dangerously

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