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.

This property became one of the most famous monuments to the bombing of Madrid by Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and was immortalized by ...

The fallout of the Spanish Civil War, which saw the oppression of regions such as Catalunya and the Basque Country by Franco's Madrid-domiciled forces, further entrenched division in the country.

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.

Dolores Ibárruri was nicknamed La Pasionaria for her fiery speeches to the anti-fascist forces during the Spanish civil war. The fighting ... led by General Francisco Franco, launched an uprising ...

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 ...

The British government did not want the Spanish Civil War to escalate into a Europe-wide conflict and so signed up to the non-intervention committee. The German Luftwaffe’s bombing of Guernica ...