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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence…
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Author details the fake news, mendacity, and corruption behind Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. The book is doubly relevant today because the MAGA far right is working to reinvent Franco, portraying him as a benevolent authoritarian who fought for Christ and thus is a model for America today.
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