The Franco dictatorship. Spanish History, vol IX

The dictatorship of General Franco was the most enduring of the regimes that governed Spain in the twentieth century. Hence the need to go beyond the debates about their origins and nature to consider in all their complexity the realities of a long period of repression and resistance, initial misery and economic development, political immobility and progressive wear of the system. Borja de Riquer has carried out an ambitious overall vision that deals with politics, economic evolution, social change or culture, in a synthesis that incorporates the results of recent research years and a series of testimonies that only now begin to be known: internal reports of the organizations of the regime, memories of the protagonists, etc. With all this De Riquer has achieved a global view that will become, without a doubt, the indispensable reference book for anyone who wants to know this time in the history of Spain.