Franco Part 1: Spain’s Buried Past
Real Dictators
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The Story of Young Franco and Elcid
Sir paul preston is an historian and author of the biography franco. Young francisco has a front row seat to the carnage left behind. As a result of this down turn in spain's fortunes, entrance examinations for the navy are cancelled. Franco throws himself into the idealized military history of spain that the boys are taught at the academy. He begins in his own mind to construct his own mythology in the vein of elsid. Eventually, the myth will consume all memory of the small, frail boy from helfero.
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