by Pedro J. Ramirez · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401332852
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«El año que murió Franco» is the historical chronicle by Pedro J. Ramírez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (278 pages, in Spanish).
A reconstruction of the events surrounding the murder of Civil Guard lieutenant Antonio Pose Rodríguez and the execution by firing squad of José Luis Sánchez Bravo, a FRAP militant. The author presents it as a long reportage in which the voices of the protagonists and documents of the era sustain a story of love, friendship, fanaticism and betrayal.
Published in 1985 in the collection «Época. Política española»; includes 16 plates of black-and-white photographs outside the text.
Recommended for readers interested in Spanish political history and in the chronicle of the end of Francoism and the origins of the Transition.
Pedro José Ramírez Codina, widely known as Pedro J. Ramírez, is a Spanish journalist. When he was appointed to manage Diario 16 at the age of 28, he became Spain's youngest editor of a national newspaper. In 1989 he founded the newspaper El Mundo, managing it continuously until 2014, making him the longest-serving editor of any Spanish national newspaper. He has collaborated with several radio and television programmes and has published a dozen books.
