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Making Francisco Franco's long life and 38 years of dictatorship enjoyable reading is a daunting challenge. With supple and elegant prose, Giles Tremlett nonetheless succeeds magnificentlyPaul Preston, author of THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR and THE SPANISH HOLOCAUSTMediocrities can rise to great power; just look at Vladimir Putin. But the classic example was Francisco Franco, who - as we learn from this excellent study of the generalìsimo and the post-war Spain he forged - never saw an internal enemy he couldn't crush in a style that was at once brutal and blunderingTelegraph, The Greatest Books of 2...Read More