A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018
by Paul Preston
A People Betrayed covers the entire, tumultuous, 20th century history of Spain up to the present and is by Paul Preston, one of the great historians of modern Spain. It received rave reviews in UK broadsheets, with the Daily Telegraph calling it a ‘must-read.’
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