Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”…

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