Books written by Paul Preston

Leadership As We Know It

Leadership As We Know It
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge

Presenting a full-blooded account of the pivotal period in 20th-century European history, this book recounts the struggles of the war, analyses the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican...
British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Part V, From 1951 through 1956,...

British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Part V, From 1951 through 1956,...
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain

This beautifully written biographical work depicts the lives of four extraordinary women to paint a vivid, dramatic, and poignant portrait of the ideologies, horrific realities, and long-lasting emotional costs of the Spanish Civil War ...
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain

José Luis Rodríguez Jiménez, Reaccionarios y golpistas. La extrema derecha en España: del 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179. 180. tardofranquismo a la consolidación de la democracia (1967–1982) (Madrid: Consejo Superior ...
Juan Carlos: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy

( Madrid , 1976 ) Rodríguez Jiménez , José Luis , Reaccionarios y golpistas . La extrema derecha en España : del tardofranquismo a la consolidación de la democracia ( 1967-1982 ) ( Madrid , 1994 ) Rodríguez Martínez , Julio ...
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1876-2018

Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain.
A People Betrayed

From the foremost historian of modern Spain comes the bloody, much misunderstood story of how, from 1874 to the present day the Spanish people were devastatingly betrayed by their political class, military and Church.
A People Betrayed

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church.
Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century

Powers. in. the. aftermath. of. the. Disaster. of. 1898. Sebastian. Balfour. In 1898, Spain lost the scattered remnants of her once great empire after a disastrous war with the United States. The war gave rise in Spain to exaggerated ...
Idealistas bajo las balas: Corresponsales extranjeros en la guerra de España

Entretanto, la familia de Tom había ejercido presión para que el Comité del Spanish Medical Aid enviara una enfermera, la temible Patience Edney, que, junto con Kitty, sin duda le salvó la vida. Con ayuda del doctor Méndez, ...
El holocausto español: Odio y exterminio en la Guerra Civil y después

Pons i Porta y Solé i Sabaté, Anarquía y República a la Cerdanya..., pp. 142-154; Gerhard, Comissari de la Generalitat..., pp. 490-491; Peirats, La CNT..., II, p. 138; César M. Lorenzo, Los anarquistas españoles y el poder, ...
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Altogether superior is the sophisticated recent analysis by Chris Ealham, Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona 1898–1937 (Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies, 2004). Dr Ealham illuminates the real origins of anarchist radicalism in ...
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

111 Eduardo Ruiz Bautista, 'Prisioneros del libro: leer y penar en las cárceles de Franco', in Antonio Castillo and ... 127, 135–8, 140–3; Consuelo García, Las cárceles de Soledad Real: una vida (Madrid: Ediciones Alfaguara, 1983) pp.
Franco (Text Only)

Its poised judgements and masterful scholarship make it certain to endure and difficult to refute." FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, ' European' "This terrific book finally buries Franco.
Spanish Civil War: Reaction Revolution And Revenge

the Bullet and the Lie ( New York : Holt , Rinehart & Winston , 1969 ) ; John Tisa , Recalling the Good Fight ( * Massachusetts , Mass .: Bergin & Garvey , 1985 ) , Carl Geiser , Prisoners of the Good Fight : The Spanish Civil War ...
The Triumph of Democracy in Spain

The book provides an authoritative account of the tribulations of the forces of progress, beginning in 1969 with the disintegration of Franco's dictatorship and ending with the remarkable Socialist election victory in 1982.
The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.
The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo

The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain’s turbulence in the 20th century.
El zorro rojo: La vida de Santiago Carrillo

Trilla murió apuñalado en un cementerio abandonado, conocido como el Campo de las Calaveras. Aunque la excusa para liquidarlo fue que un informador de la policía lo había acusado de ladrón, su auténtico crimen había sido su vínculo con ...