Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country´s Hidden Past

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country´s Hidden Past
The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe´s most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalisimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco´s death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call ´the pact of forgetting´. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history.