What happens when Franco Genovese, drummer for the American rock band, Rook, and Gemma Hendricks, a British architect, meet in a L.A. bar? The attraction between the two is instant, and so is their friendship. When they both head home soon, it will all be over, or will it? There is something Gemma wants more than anything else. Everything changes when Franco propositions her to provide what she's looking for, but will it be love, or will it be their ruin?
Before becoming one of the longest-ruling dictators of the twentieth century, Francisco Franco commanded troops in the kinds of wars that have since become all too familiar.
Franco and the Spanish Civil War is a wide-ranging and insightful analysis of the origins, course, and consequences of the conflict and of Franco's role within it.
Reviews Franco's near forty-year rule of Spain, discusses his personal style, and looks at Spain's economy, foreign policy, and social changes during that period
They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society.
Examines three Latin fascist tyrants--Mussolini, Franco, and Salazar--and shows how they perpetuated their rule.
In 1978 artist Franklin Gaskin, known as Franco the Great, took it upon himself to change a negative into a positive by painting inspiring murals on metal storefront gates in Harlem, creating a new art form.
In his groundbreaking new book, Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, Jeremy Treglown argues that oversimplifications like these of a complicated, ambiguous actuality have contributed to a separate falsehood: that there was ...
Its poised judgements and masterful scholarship make it certain to endure and difficult to refute." FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, ' European' "This terrific book finally buries Franco.
Illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an introduction to the Franco-Prussian War, a war that marked the beginning of the creation of modern Europe.
Fiction. Art. Poetry. FROM THE LIBRARY OF MICHAEL FRANCO'S A BOOK OF MEASURE: THE MARVELS OF DAVID LEERING continues Michael Franco's continuing endeavor, A BOOK OF MEASURE.