At Whatever Cost
Bernard Knox, 24 March 1994
Franco: A Biography
by Paul Preston.
HarperCollins, 1002 pp., £25, October 1993,0 00 215863 9 Show More
by Paul Preston.
HarperCollins, 1002 pp., £25, October 1993,
“... began to speak of himself as a successor to the imperial Spanish monarchs of the 16th century, to Charles V, who governed most of Europe, and his son Philip II, who sent the Armada against England and built the Escorial to house his bones. He had delusions, too, about the catastrophic state of the Spanish economy during the Second World War and its ... ”