Franco
Subtitle: a biography
By: Paul Preston.
Publisher: BasicBooks, a division of HarperCollins
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1002
Subjects: Franco, Francisco, 1892-1975; Heads of state -- Spain -- Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [921]-953) and index.