Franco
a biography
by Paul Preston
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The controversy about Franco's achievements has raged since his death. Just how good a general was he? Would he have won the civil war without German and Italian help? Can he be blamed for the bombing of Guernica and other atrocities? Did he dupe Hitler during World War II? Were his self-sufficient economic policies directly responsible for ushering in Spain's economic boom? Did he deliberately seek to liberalize the regime in his later years, or was he perhaps losing his grip on the controls?
Did Franco preside over another Spanish golden age or did he merely stall and stifle his country's natural growth? How, in the final reckoning, are his achievements to be judged? Preston addresses and resolves, often to startling effect, these pivotal questions.
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Franco: a biography
1994, BasicBooks, a division of HarperCollins
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0465025153 9780465025152
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [921]-953) and index.
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Contra la visión de Franco como figura providencial, una biografía completísima, rigurosa y apasionante del hombre que rigió España durante tantos años, donde se muestra al militar ambicioso e implacable al admirador de Hitler y Mussolini; al dirigiente político cada vez más pagado de su propio papel, pero incapaz de comprender la complejidad del Estado y la economía modernos. Queda el hombre visceralmente conservador, tan cauto como ambicioso, hábil en el manejo de las personas y de los contrapesos del poder.
Un libro imprescindible para quien quiera comprender la historia reciente de España, Así como a uno de los personajes cantrales de la misma.
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