Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

Subtitled: "Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth Century Spain". Renowned historian, Paul Preston, charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate 200,000 innocent men, women and children across Spain between the years 1936 and 1945.