Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalisimo Francisco Franco? This book finds that Spaniards had tried to wipe both the Civil War and Franco from their memory and histo[...]

"Part modern social history, part travelogue, "Ghosts of Spain "is held together by elegant first-person prose...an invaluable book... that] has become something of a bible for those of us "extranjeros "who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a bet[...]