Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator

273 Pages·2018·4.36 MB·English

by  Enrique Moradiellos

Enrique Moradiellos is Professor of Modern Spanish and European History at
the University of Extremadura, Spain. He has previously taught at Queen Mary,
University of London and Complutense University, Madrid and is the author of
ten books on twentieth-century Spain, published in Spanish. In 2017 he was
awarded the Premio Nacional de Historia (National Prize for History) by the
Ministry of Education of Spain.
‘Enrique Moradiellos is one of the most distinguished historians of twentieth-
century Spain. For a concise and lucid account of Franco, the man and his
dictatorship, it would be difficult to improve on his balanced and learned
account.’
Paul Preston, author of The Last Days of the Spanish Republic
FRANCO
Anatomy of a Dictator
Enrique Moradiellos
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To Susana and Inés
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Map
Introduction: Franco, an Uncomfortable Spectre from the Past
1 The Man: A Basic Biography
2 The Caudillo: A Charismatic Dictator
3 The Regime: A Complex Dictatorship
Notes
Further Reading
Plates

Illustrations 1 Stamps showing Franco in
his 40s, 50s and 60s (Public domain) 2
Franco as a commander in the African
Army, 1916 (Album Universal Images
Group Universal History Archive) 3
Franco as Caudillo after the victory of 1939
(Album Universal Images Group Universal
History Archive / UIG) 4 Franco and Hitler
at Hendaye (on the Spanish–French
frontier), 23 October 1940 (Album /
Oronoz) 5 Franco as Caudillo and head of
state, late 1950s (Album / Granger, NYC) 6
Franco and his wife Carmen at a social
event in the mid-1960s (Album Universal
Images Group Universal History Archive /
UIG) 7 Franco and Prince Juan Carlos in
1972 (Rue des Archives Bridgeman Images
AGIP) 8 The front cover of a book of
Franco’s speeches, published in 1939
(Public domain) 9 Postcard depicting
General Franco with ‘Long Live Spain,
Italy, Germany and Portugal’ slogans and
flags – from the time of the Spanish Civil
War (Public domain) 10 Franco on the
cover of Time magazine, October 1943
(Public domain) 11 A 1953 coin featuring
Franco (Public domain) 12 The cover of a
book of caricatures published in Latin
America (Uruguay and Argentina) in 1937
(Public domain) 13 The Generalissimo, a
poster issued by the Madrid Defence
Council (Junta de Defensa de Madrid) in
late 1936 (Public domain) 14 Caricature of
Franco published in an exiled Republican
magazine in 1953, the year in which Franco
allowed the US to build military bases in
Spain. The caption reads ‘Very well paid!’
(Public domain)
15 Caricature of Franco published in exile in France by a Republican
organisation during the 1940s (Public domain)
Map