Paul Preston is een vooraanstaand historicus van hedendaagse Spaanse gebeurtenissen. Zijn werk richt zich op de analyse van sleutelfiguren en perioden in de Spaanse geschiedenis, en biedt diepgaande inzichten in de complexe politieke en sociale krachten die het land hebben gevormd. Zijn schrijven onderscheidt zich door grondigheid en scherpzinnige analyse.
Focusing on the political landscape of Spain, the narrative chronicles the challenges faced by progressive forces from the fall of Franco's dictatorship in 1969 to the landmark Socialist election victory in 1982. It offers a detailed exploration of the social and political transformations during this pivotal period, highlighting key events and figures that shaped the nation's path towards democracy and reform.
From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church.
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work. Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be drawn of the atrocities of Franco’s Spain—from torture and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systematic terror carried out by Spain’s fascist government.
Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
We Saw Spain Die is about the courage and the skill of the men and women who wrote about what was happening in Spain during the Civil War, by the world's leading authority.
The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain's turbulence in the 20th century.
A brilliant new portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain. Anyone interested in Spain will want this book. Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph schovat popis
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book. The biography presents a mass of new and unknown material about its subject, the fruits of research in the archives of six countries and a plethora of interviews with key figures. Paul Preston is the author of The Triumph of Democracy in Spain and The Spanish Civil War 1936-9.
In this volume, Paul Preston focuses on the stories of four women whose very different beliefs and experiences help crystallise a new vision of the Spanish Civil War. In the book, as in the war, communist is pitted against fascist.
The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.
