Paperback. Pub Date :2012-04-01 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europes most voluble people So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule. of dictator Generalsimo Francisco FrancoThe appearance - sixty years after that war ended -. of mass graves containing victims of Francos death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call the pact of forgetting At this charged moment. Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history.Tremletts journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures. but are cowed by a doctors white coat How had women embraced feminism without men noticing What binds gypsies. jails and flamenco Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons. donate their organs. visi...