Ghosts of Spain

Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past

Ranked #9 in Spain, Ranked #20 in Spanish Civil Warsee more rankings.

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe’s most voluble people have kept silent so long.
 
Ghosts of Spain is the fascinating result of that journey. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett...
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