He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

The book champions the violent regimes of right-wing dictators like Francisco Franco, while defining people on the left as ...

Most recently, he is the author of The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933–1936: Origins of the Civil War, Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II, Spain: A Unique History and Civil War ...

Franco’s Pirates is an essential read for anyone interested in the Spanish Civil War, naval operations between the World Wars, and the concept of blockade. Note: Franco’s Pirates is also available in ...

General Franco ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. More than 350,000 people died in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, which saw Franco's Nationalist forces defeat the Republican government.

Art in Spain inexorably involves a set of attitudes to and by the government. The Civil War, cutting off a rich flowering of painting and sculpture, turned Picasso into a rebellious exile ...

Franco would ultimately triumph ... served in the Royal Marines before the Spanish Civil War Others include Jack Howley, of Colne, who later served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War.

A Madrid court said the time limit for filing criminal charges had passed and the alleged crimes fell under an amnesty law ...

As legal battles continue, concerns have been raised about how Spain’s civil war and Franco era past will be ... In April, the United Nations urged the Spanish government to take all necessary ...

Julio Pacheco Yepes, 68, was questioned by a judge in September 2023 -- the first time someone who says they were detained and tortured during the Franco era testified at a Spanish court.