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'''Sir Paul Preston''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 21 July 1946) is an English historian and [[Hispanist]], biographer of [[Francisco Franco]], and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the [[Spanish Civil War]], which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.<ref>Night Waves, BBC Radio Three, 6 March 2012</ref>

 

</ref> This book represents a challenge to the [[pact of forgetting]],<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/9103580/The-Spanish-Holocaust-by-Paul-Preston-review.html | title=The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston: review | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | date=February 2012 | access-date=15 October 2012 | author=Treglown}}</ref> examining the many deaths and atrocities associated with the Spanish Civil War, and following the Francoist repression into the early 1950s.<ref name="review">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/09/spanish-holocaust-paul-preston-review | title=The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston – review | work=[[The Guardian]]| date=March 2012 | access-date=22 August 2012 | author=Tremlett, Giles}}</ref>

 

 

At the same time the book received praise among academics and journalists, with Giles Tremlett writing in the Guardian: "Preston provides facts, figures and harrowing descriptions in the first full and proper attempt to explain the horror. He does not shy away from strong words – 'holocaust' is deliberately chosen to describe the extent of cold-blooded killing [...] because its resonances with systematic murder should be evoked in the Spanish case, as they are in those of Germany or Russia".“<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tremlett |first=Giles |date=2012-03-09 |title=The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston – review |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/09/spanish-holocaust-paul-preston-review |access-date=2023-11-24 |issn=0261-3077}} </ref>

===Honorary Doctorates===

* 2015 [[Honorary degree|''Doctor Honoris causa'']] from the [[University of Rovira i Virgili|Universitat Rovira i Virigili]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://diaridigital.urv.cat/en/lhistoriador-hispanista-angles-paul-preston-doctor-honoris-causa-per-la-urv/|title = The Hispanist historian Paul Preston is awarded an honorary doctorate by the URV}}</ref>

* 2015 [[Honorary degree|''Doctor Honoris causa'']] from the [[University of Liverpool]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2015/07/21/spanish-history-professor-awarded-honorary-degree/|title = Spanish history professor awarded honorary degree}}</ref>

* 2015 [[Honorary degree|''Doctor Honoris causa'']] from the [[Universidad de Extremadura]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fundacionyuste.org/en/paul-preston-doctor-honoris-causa-by-the-university-of-extremadura/|title =Paul Preston, Member of the European Academy of Yuste, receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Extremadura}}</ref>

* 2015 [[Honorary degree|''Doctor Honoris causa'']] from the [[Universitat de València]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uv.es/uvweb/college/en/news-release/universitat-de-valencia-will-grant-historian-paul-preston-distinction-new-doctor-honoris-causa-1285846070123/Noticia.html?id=1285949993250|title = The Universitat de València will grant to the historian Paul Preston the distinction of new Doctor Honoris Causa}}</ref>

* {{cite book |author-mask=1| author=Paul Preston | title=Doves of War: Four Women of Spain | publisher= [[HarperCollins]] | location= London | year=2002}}<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=[[The Guardian]]|author-link=Piers Brendon|first=Piers|last=Brendon|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview5|date=1 June 2002|title=Love and death on the front line}}</ref>

* {{cite book |author-mask=1| author=Paul Preston | title=Juan Carlos: A People's King | publisher= [[HarperCollins]] | location= London | year=2004}}<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=[[The Guardian]]|first=Piers|last=Brendon|author-link=Piers Brendon|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jun/05/biography.history|title=From a pawn to a king|date=5 June 2004}}</ref>{{refn|group=n.|Published in the US with the subtitle: ''Steering Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy''.}}

* {{Cite book|author-mask=1|author=Paul Preston|year=2008|location=Barcelona|publisher=[[Ediciones B]]|title=El gran manipulador. La mentira cotidiana de Franco}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Reig Tapia|first=Alberto|title=Preston, Paul: El gran manipulador. La mentira cotidiana de Franco, Ediciones B, Barcelona, 2008, 371 pp.|year=2007|journal=Historia Contemporánea|issue=35|location=Bilbao|publisher=[[Universidad del País Vasco]]|pages=867–872|issn=1130-2402|url=http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/HC/article/view/4129/3679}}</ref>

* {{cite book |author-mask=1| author=Paul Preston | title=El zorro rojo, la vida de Santiago Carrillo|location=Madrid | publisher=Debate | year=2013}}<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://journals.openedition.org/ccec/6180?lang=es|title=Santiago Carrillo, une biographie de Paul Preston|journal=Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine|year=2016|issue=16|issn=1957-7761|first=Serge|last=Buj|doi=10.4000/ccec.6180|doi-access=free}}</ref>

* {{Cite book|author-mask=1|author=Paul Preston|year=2016|title=The Last Days of The Spanish Republic |location=London|publisher=William Collins}}<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=[[The Spectator]]|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/francos-bloody-finale/|title=Franco's bloody finale|first=Jason|author-link=Jason Webster (author)|date=19 March 2016|last=Webster}}</ref>