Franco

This biography of Franco is the first objective and dispassionate study of the figure who ruled Spain for almost forty years and who became the most powerful political leader in the country's history. Numerous books have been written about Franco and his dictatorship, but generally polarized towards hagiography or criticism of incomplete denunciation. The authors, renowned historians, have created a work from a deep investigation in primary sources. This is the first rigorous academic biography presenting an authentic Franco in objective terms, describing his childhood and adolescence, his relationship with women and his personal and family life, his role in the military rebellion, the forging of his dictatorship, its tortuous and highly tempting politics with the Axis in World War II, its political metamorphosis, its relations with don Juan and Juan Carlos, its uncertainties in the succession of the Head of State and its refusal to manufacture the atomic bomb . And it is the first serious biography that dedicates an entire chapter to his responsibility and leadership in the post-war repression.