The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive History of Modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the Modern world.
Whereas so many twentieth-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston\'s magisterial work begins in the late nineteenth century with Spain\'s collapse as a glo.
The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive History of Modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the Modern world
