„A good solid history. ... The real-life stories of real-life people are presented and it is to these bread-and-butter issues that historians should be listening.“ (Reviews in History, April 2010)Antonio Cazorla succeeds in capturing the complexity andcontradictory character of life in Spain under Franco in a uniqueway. This book penetrates beneath the surface of politics andgovernment to deal with the lives of ordinary people and helps toopen a new perspective on the Franco years. -Stanley Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison This is a pathbreaking study of the Franco regime as experiencedby ordinary Spaniards. Cazorla Sanchez paints an impassionedportrait of a people subjected to decades of violence who built apropserous society and left fear behind to become citizens andmake the most impressive transition to democracy in 20thcentury Europe. -Adrian Shubert, York University, Canada