At 33, Franco was the youngest general in all of Europe. During the Civil War he built his image as a military leader; before long, he was named “Generalissimo”—a general among generals.

As this week began, the armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved on Barcelona from three sides. From the south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 ...

All he did was to order some 60,000 Carlists to fight under Generalissimo Franco while he sat tight in Vienna. Then one day he was killed by an automobile, and his second cousin, Prince Xavier ...

Film "commemorating" the death of the Spanish dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1893-1976), caricatured through the senile and sclerotic figure of an old man dragging himself in a ...

The lyrical film is bracketed with references to the Spanish Civil War, which led to decades of authoritarian rule by Generalissimo Franco, and the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile which toppled the ...