Paul Preston

Paul Preston is the Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies and the director of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics. His many books on the Spanish Civil War include The Spanish Holocaust, short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2012, and, most recently, The Last Days of the Spanish Republic. 

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