Review
EL GENERALISIMO
A new biography explores the life of Francisco Franco – the dictator who ruled Spain for 39 years
Author: Giles Tremlett
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Price: £30
Released: Out now
From 1936 to 1975, fascist dictator Francisco Franco ruled Spain with an iron fist. What was unique about his regime was that it outlived its European contemporaries, with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy both falling during the Second World War. Only António de Oliveira Salazar’s regime in Portugal came close, collapsing four years after his death in 1968. So what was Franco, the old warrior who presided over his country for so long, really like? In his latest work, Giles Tremlett attempts to answer this question.