Franco - Sheelagh M. Ellwood

This wide-ranging series provides critical studies of key figures in International Political history since 1500. Using succinct interpretative essays, each book analyzes the major features of the career within the context of its own time.;In the course of the 20th century, Spain has experienced a bewildering succession of political systems and structures. The most striking feature, however, is not so much the rapid shifts of the political kaleidoscope, as the fact that four decades of it were occupied by the single regime of General Francisco Franco (1892-1975).;In this study Shellagh Ellwood assesses the career of Franco from the formative years of his army postings in Spanish Morocco, to the Spanish Civil War, which brought him supreme power, and then his fourty years in control of his country.;It places Franco's military and political career in the context of the social, economic and political evolution of 20th century Spain.;It draws on the wide variety of research and observation carried out over 20 years, including oral testimony etc: not just an ephemeral "quickie" based on secondary English-language material but a work of authority in its own right.