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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalisimo Francisco Franco?The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call the pact of forgetting'. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history.Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?
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Description and travel, History, Influence, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, Spanish National characteristics, Travel, Spain, history, Spain, social life and customs, Spain, social conditions, Spain, politics and government, Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939, New York Times reviewed, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Manners and customs, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, National characteristics, spanish, Spain, description and travelPeople
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past
2012, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
March 4, 2008, Walker & Company
Paperback
in English
0802716741 9780802716743
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Secret Past
February 6, 2007, Walker & Company
Hardcover
in English
0802715745 9780802715746
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Ghosts of Spain: travels through Spain and its silent past
2007, Walker & Co., Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
0802715745 9780802715746
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