The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything ...

He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

Civil War device found in garage. The German-built bomb was taken to an authorised area where it was destroyed in a ...

the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing ...

Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles has canceled plans to commemorate the centenary of the Alhucemas landing. The decision, made under the direction of the Chief of the Defense Staff Admiral ...

The Spanish state on Thursday took ... More than half a million people died during the 1936-39 civil war and an estimated 150,000 were killed later by Franco's government, historians estimate.