This book recounts the various fruitless attempts to kill Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who ruled over a fascist state from the end of the Civil War (1936) until his eventual death by natural causes in 1975. Professor Antoni Batista analyse...

This book recounts the various fruitless attempts to kill Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who ruled over a fascist state from the end of the Civil War (1936) until his eventual death by natural causes in 1975. Professor Antoni Batista analyses all the plans to neutralize the dictator, recreating and focusing on the assassination attempt of August 1962, as it had the best chance of success. He follows the life of one of the protagonists of this plan, activist Comrade Bonet, and gives readers the keys to understanding the clandestine struggle of Franco’s opponents, as well as the achievements and disappointments of the transition to democracy.