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An invaluable book . . . A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present.-Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review

Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War and the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a journey around Spain and its... Read Full Overview

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--the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored... Read Full Overview