num_pages: 512
description: Spain's transition from the Franco dictatorship to a democratic state has been widely regarded as exemplary. However, this powerfully written book reveals that as Spain's first post-transition government attempted to destroy the Basque separatist group ETA, it adopted the very policies of indiscriminate terror that had characterized Franco's authoritarian regime and ETA's own strategy. Furthermore, the anti-terrorist liberation group GAL was organized and secretly funded by the government. For this paperback edition the text has been revised and thoroughly updated.
language: English
title: Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy
titlecomplete: Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy
genres: Spanish Literature, Nonfiction, Terrorism, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Yale University Press