In Spain between 1936-1945, the Franco regime carried out one Europe's more brutal but less remembered programs of mass repression. Many were murdered by the regime's death squads, and in some areas Francoists also subjected up to 15% of the population to summary military trials. Here many suffered the death sentence or jail terms up to thirty years. Although historians have recognised the staggering scale of the trials, they have tended to overlook the mass participation that underpinned them. In contrast to the discussion in other European countries, little attention has been paid to the...
In Spain between 1936-1945, the Franco regime carried out one Europe's more brutal but less remembered programs of mass repression. Many were murde...
'Today with the Red Army captive and disarmed, the Nationalist nacionales] troops have achieved their final military objectives. The war is over.' With these two sentences, General Franco announced on April 1, 1939 that his writ ran across the whole of Spain. His words marked a high point for those who had flocked to Franco who, since the start of the Civil War in July 1936, had carried out what was regarded as the steady occupation of the country. The history of this occupation remains conspicuous by its absence, and the term occupation lies discredited for many historians. The danger of...
'Today with the Red Army captive and disarmed, the Nationalist nacionales] troops have achieved their final military objectives. The war is over.' Wi...
A comic, meditative literary novel about Aaron, an Abba-obsessed, repressed Head of Music and his cantankerous (and increasingly incontinent) Father. Estranged for decades, when their respective wives take their leave of them they reunite for a quixotic road-trip in search of Aaron's mythical ex-lover...
A comic, meditative literary novel about Aaron, an Abba-obsessed, repressed Head of Music and his cantankerous (and increasingly incontinent) Father. ...
