José Antonio Primo de Rivera

<p> There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as José Antonio Primo de Rivera a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory of the Falangists. In this long-awaited translation Joan Maria Thomàs provides a measured exhaustively researched study of Primo de Rivera's personality beliefs and political activity. His biography shows us a man dedicated to the creation of a fascist political regime that he aspired to one day lead while at the same carefully distinguishing his aims from those of the Falangists and the Franco Regime.</p>