Franco is an excellent account of the Generalissimo's rise to power and his four decades as autocratic Head of State in Spain.

Francisco Franco was a military man before all else and Sheelagh Ellwood assesses his career, through the Civil War and his forty years of supreme power, and reveals the personal characteristics that enabled Franco to take advantage of those circumstances. Franco, in the Profiles in Power series, is not a biography, though inevitably it contains much biographical material, it instead analyzes the major features, achievements and failures of Franco's career.

An excellent introduction to Franco's rise to power and his four decades as autocratic head of state in Spain.