At 33, Franco was the youngest general in all of Europe. During the Civil War he built his image as a military leader; before long, he was named “Generalissimo”—a general among generals.

He was speaking directly and publicly to Burgos, 220 miles away, seat of the Government of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Next day Ramon Serrano Suñer, Minister of Interior of the Franco ...

His side lost. Generalissimo Franco’s dictatorship would endure for 35 years. Orwell later chronicled his war experiences in "Homage to Catalonia" and exposed the terrifying machinery of ...

It meant that the capital’s inhabitants, beleaguered for nearly four months, had no respite even at night from Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s White bombers. In a desperate attempt to save ...