Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975

Antonio Cazorla succeeds in capturing the complexity and contradictory character of life in Spain under Franco in a unique way. This book penetrates beneath the surface of politics and government to deal with the lives of ordinary people and helps to open a new perspective on the Franco years.
–Stanley Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This is a pathbreaking study of the Franco regime as experienced by ordinary Spaniards. Cazorla Sanchez paints an impassioned portrait of a people subjected to decades of violence who built a propserous society and left fear behind to become citizens and make  the most impressive transition to democracy in 20th century Europe.
–Adrian Shubert, York University, Canada