The Unhinged Propaganda of the Spanish Holocaust

Seth Preston, in 2012's The Spanish Holocaust, addresses killings during the war. But unlike his magnum opus, his biography of Franco, this later book is a work of unhinged propaganda to whitewash and excuse all Republican killing. Words such as savage and vicious appear with metronomic regularity never once applied to Republicans. He cannot bring himself to use the word rape by Republicans. A low toll he attributes to, the respect for women that was built into the Republic's reforming program.