New book courts Franco controversy
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
A new book to be launched in Tenerife next week will claim that General Francisco Franco, Spain’s former dictator, fathered an illegitimate son during his time as military commander of the Canary Islands in the 1930s.
The book, ‘The Secret Son of Franco’, claims the child was the product of an affair with the wife of a lieutenant under his command.
Spanish author Fernando Gracia will launch his new book in the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz next week (April 20).
The book will allege that the child was born just before Franco launched a failed attempt to overthrow Spain’s Socialist government in 1936, an action he directed from his base in La Esperanza, Tenerife, and which set in motion the bloody Spanish Civil War.
He became leader of the right-wing Nationalist movement during the Civil War and became head ...
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