From heroic legends to royal intrigue, these five books take you deep into Spain’s most fascinating period. Perfect for history buffs, students, and curious readers alike.

"The Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain lasted almost 40 years, from his military invasion of the Second Spanish Republic in 1936 and three years of civil war to his death in the fall of 1975," ...

He reports that at least 40,000 books have been published on Spain’s Civil War alone! ... I purchased Reid’s book because I wanted to know more about Spain’s economic and political history.

A nation’s history, according to Ortega, consists of a period of amalgamation and a period of disintegration. Spain has been disintegrating since 1580, when Philip II conquered Portugal.

As era is layered upon era, the events of history become linked not only by a causal relationship, but by a creative one as well: this book suggests that the concept of Spain has evolved through ...

Lamine Yamal inspired Spain to a 5–4 win over France in a breathless Nations League semi-final, booking a place in Sunday’s final against neighbours Portugal.France started the stronger side ...

World Cup: ‘We want to go down in the history books.’ Diverse Morocco stuns Spain. Jawad El Yamiq (18), top right, ... “Of course we want to go down in the history books.

I, THE KING by Frances Parkinson Keyes. 351 pages. McGraw-Hill. $5.95.They say in the book trade that Frances Parkinson Keyes learned to type on the cash register. This is hard to refute. Mrs.

Part of the problem is that authors in the study disagree on how many Jews made it to Spain, varying from 13,000 to 30,000. One of the shortcomings of this book is the lack of accurate figures on the ...

But what makes the history of Islam in Spain read, as W. Somerset Maugham writes in “The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia” (1905), “far more like romance ...