Hodges (the wife of Paul Preston, another Franco biographer) has written an engaging and highly accessible account of one of the 20th century's most durable dictators. The diminutive and contradictory ...

Two specialists on modern Spain and the Spanish Civil War give us a life of Francisco Franco. They do an excellent job of putting Franco into the social and military context of his times, and ...

Excerpted from Franco: A Personal and Political Biography by Stanley G. Payne and Jesús Palacios. Published by University of Wisconsin Press. The Nationalist military chieftains who elevated Francisco ...

More than 44 years after the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, a long-simmering political battle over his resting place finally appears to be at an end. Work began Thursday morning to exhume ...

MADRID, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Spain will on Thursday remove dictator Francisco Franco's remains from the state mausoleum in which he was buried in 1975, the government said on Monday. The ruling ...

It has been more than eight decades since Spain's fascist dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco, took possession of the Pazo de Meirás during the civil war that brought him to power. Since then, the palace ...