1939-1975

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a story of the Spanish Civil War
2022
"During the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, siblings Soccoro and Paco must live with constant secrets while they wait to reunite with their father, who fled Spain due to political persecution"--Provided by publisher.

Pan's labyrinth

the labyrinth of the faun
"This spellbinding tale takes readers to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family"--Provided by the publisher.
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The shadow of the wind

2014
In 1945 Spain, the young son of an antique-book dealer searches for more books by Juli?n Carax, an author he has recently discovered, and finds that everything Carax has ever written has been destroyed--and that his search has put his friends and family in danger.

Paracuellos

In the late 1930's, Spanish Facists, led by Francisco Franco, and aided by Hitler and Mussolini, overthrew the democratically elected government of Spain. Almost 200,000 men and women fell in battle, were executed, or died in prison. Their orphaned children were ripped from their homes and shuttled from place to place, tortured, and fed a steady diet of misinformation. The author of this graphic memoir, Carlos, Gimenez, was one of those children. In 1975, after Franco's death, Carlos began to tell his story in comic book form.

Franco

a concise biography
2002
A biography of Spanish leader General Francisco Franco, discussing his rise through the ranks of the Spanish Army, his actions during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and other aspects of his fifty-year career, and examining the personal insecurities that plagued him throughout his life.

Spain

a nation comes of age
1984

La colmena

caminos inciertos
2002
Survivors of the WWII in Madrid, including neurotic business owners, wordy salesmen, and aloof poets, meet at Dona Rosa's caf? where they argue, laugh, and generally worry about life's hardships.

The Spanish holocaust

inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain
2012
Examines what author Paul Preston terms "the Spanish Holocaust", charting twentieth-century Spain under General Franco in which hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children were systematically wiped out.

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