Paul Preston

Paul Preston CBE (born 1946 in Liverpool) is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Franco, specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 30 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.^[1]

Paul Preston on a visit to Spain in 2008

Since 1991 Professor Preston has taught at the London School of Economics, where he is Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies and director of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. He is a frequent visitor to Spain, where his work appears in Spanish. He speaks Spanish fluently.^[2] He also speaks Catalan.

Publications

Preston has produced a biography of Franco (Basic Books, 1994). He has also published a biography of King Juan Carlos I (2003).

Recent books include ones on the subject of foreign correspondents who reported on the Spanish Civil War and Franco's control of his generals. In 2012 he published the English edition of the Spanish Holocaust.^[3] This book represents a challenge to the pact of forgetting,^[4] examining the many deaths and atrocities associated with the Spanish Civil War, and following the Francoist repression into the early 1950s.^[5]

Bibliography

• Paul Preston (2013). El zorro rojo - La vida de Santiago Carrillo. Debate. ISBN 978-8-49-032422-6.
• Paul Preston (2012). The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain. London, UK: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0002556347.
• Paul Preston (2008). We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War. London, UK: Constable and Robinson. ISBN 978-1845299460.
• Paul Preston (2006). The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge. London, UK: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-723207-9.
• Paul Preston (2004). Juan Carlos: A People's King. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-255632-3. Published in the US with the subtitle: Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy.
• Paul Preston (2002). Doves of War: Four Women of Spain. London, UK: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-255633-0.
• Paul Preston (2001). Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-09894-6.
• Paul Preston (1999). ¡Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War. London, UK: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255635-9.
• Paul Preston (1995). Franco: A biography. London, UK: Fontana Press. ISBN 978-0-00-686210-9.
• Paul Preston (1978). The Coming of the Spanish Civil War: Reform, Reaction and Revolution in the Second Republic 1931-1936. London, UK: Macmillan.
• Paul Preston (ed.) (1976). Leviátan: Antologia. Ediciones Turner.
• Paul Preston (ed.) (1976). Spain in Crisis: Evolution and Decline of the Franco Regime. London, UK: Branch Line.

Awards and honours

• 2000 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 2005 Ramon Llull International Prize
• 2007 Grand Cross of the Orden de Isabel la Católica (one of Spain's highest honours)
• 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist, The Spanish Holocaust ^[6]
• 2013 Honour Prize of the Lluís Carulla's Foundation ^[7]

References

1. Night Waves, BBC Radio Three, 6 March 2012
2. (Spanish) 2007 Cadena SER interview, accessed via El País website
3. Spanish and Catalan editions appeared in 2011. España masacrada, El País.
4. Treglown (February 2012). "The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston: review". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
5. Tremlett, Giles (March 2012). "The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston - review". The Guardian. www.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
6. Alison Flood (5 October 2012). "Six books to 'change our view of the world' on shortlist for non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
7. ACN (12 November 2012). "La Fundació Lluís Carulla atorga el Premi d'Honor a l'historiador Paul Preston". Vilaweb. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

External links

• Publications by Paul Preston at LSE Research Online
• Paul Preston Interview on The Señales de Humo