EL GRAN MANIPULADOR: LA MENTIRA COTIDIANA DE FRANCO (Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Preston, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8466638296 ISBN 13: 9788466638296

Publisher: EDB NO FICCION, 2008

Synopsis

Doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Oxford, profesor de Historia Española Contemporanea en la prestigiosa London School of Economics, autor de una docena de titulos sobre la España reciente, Paul Preston conoce como nadie la figura de Francisco Franco. En El gran manipulador, Preston nos ofrece una biografia accesible y actualizada, que cubre todos los aspectos necesarios para entender la figura del general (su ascension en el ejercito durante la Republica, la Guerra Civil, la posguerra y las relaciones con Hitler, los cuarenta años de dictadura) y muestra como estuvo siempre obsesionado por controlar la imagen, progresivamente camaleonica, que ofrecia al mundo. / Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively chameleon, which gave the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Preston is Principe de Asturias Professor of Iberian History at the LSE, and was head of the International History Department there for several years. He is regarded as the leading historian of twentieth-century Spain alive.

About this edition

• Publisher: EDB NO FICCION
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8466638296
• ISBN 13: 9788466638296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384