How historians, journalists, photographers, and filmmakers have dealt with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition
The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as a virtue in Spain, even a duty. But the common wisdom has shifted as increasing numbers of Spaniards want to know what happened, who suffered, and who is to blame. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War shows how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped views of the 1936-39 war and its long, painful aftermath.
