![]() ![]() ![]() That said, no one has made a bigger contribution to revealing that mystery than the London School of Economics professor. ![]() “Franco remains a mystery to me,” says Preston from his London home.įranco was implacable and used all his extermination machinery to eliminate those he considered enemies” On top of that, he’s also made amendments all the way through the biography’s more-than 1,000 pages: “Minutiae, details – about his relationship with Hitler, his role in the global conflict, the bombing of Guernica…” The immense flow of a life of maneuvering, word play, icy consideration for those he liquidated, opportunism, and an instinct for survival. Preston, however, is not worried: “They may sell a lot of books, but they aren’t serious, and attempts to revitalize his figure have proved unsuccessful.” The second means confronting controversy: Franco’s admirers have attempted to rehabilitate his figure and their knives will be sharpened and waiting. In the first case, the British Hispanist enters a gray area, obscured by Franco’s manipulations after the end of World War II. Since Paul Preston published his landmark study of the life of General Francisco Franco in 1993, he has not stopped revising and expanding the work for the latest edition, he’s added two new chapters: “One about his relationship with the Jews, and another providing an overview of how he has been treated by other historians and writers.” British Hispanist Paul Preston in Valencia. ![]()
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