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  • Preston, Paul (2018). Britain and the Basque Campaign of 1937: The Government, the Royal Navy, the Labour Party and the Press. European History Quarterly, 48(3), 490-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691418780100
  • Preston, Paul (2017). Lights and shadows in George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2018.1388550
  • Preston, Paul (2017). A professional historian in private practice: Hugh Thomas (1931-2017), the Spanish Civil War and beyond. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2017.1351099
  • Preston, Paul (2017). Raymond Carr (1919–2015). Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 94(3), 527-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2017.1307595
  • Preston, Paul (2015). Great statesman or unscrupulous opportunist? Anglo-Saxon interpretations of Lluís Companys. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 92(8-10), 493-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2016.1106117
  • Preston, Paul (2011). A Catalan contribution to the myth of the contubernio Judeo-Masónico-Bolchevique. Modern Italy, 16(4), 461-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2011.611230
  • Preston, Paul (2009). El impacto de 1968 en Espana. Pasajes de Pensamiento Contemporáneo, 30, 109-115.
  • Preston, Paul (2007). Censorship and commitment: foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 20(3), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis.20.3.231_1
  • Preston, Paul (2007). No simple purveyor of news: George Steer and Guernica. History Today, 57(5), 12-17.
  • Preston, Paul (2006). Two doctors and one cause: Len Crome and Reginald Saxton in the International Brigades. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 19(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis.19.1.5/1
  • Preston, Paul (2004). Obituary of Reginald Saxton. Guardian,
  • Preston, Paul (2004). La venjança de Franco, el justicier. Papers del Museu d'història de Catalunya, 10(May), 6-13.
  • Preston, Paul (2004). 'The answer lies in the sewers': Captain Aguilera and the mentality of the Francoist officer corps. Science and Society, 68(3), 277-312. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.68.3.277.40298
  • Preston, Paul (2001). Spanish civil war. History Today, 51(11), 3-4.
  • Preston, Paul (2001). Flying for Franco. BBC History Magazine, 2(7), 34-37.
  • Preston, Paul (2001). An awareness of guilt. Times Literary Supplement,
  • Preston, Paul (2001). How Spain fought the bad fight. Irish Times, p. 71.
  • Preston, Paul (2001). Obituary: Len Crome. Guardian,
  • Preston, Paul (2000). Gigolo who tried to turn the tide of war. Times Higher Education Supplement,
  • Preston, Paul (1996). A pacifist in war: the tragedy of Julian Besteiro. Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies, 2(2), 179-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507499608569442
  • Preston, Paul (1996). The victor and the vanquished: Franco and Azana. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 9(2).
  • Preston, Paul (1994). General Franco as a military leader. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4, 21-41. https://doi.org/10.2307/3679213
  • Preston, Paul (1992). Franco and Hitler: the myths of Hendaye 1940. Contemporary European History, 1(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777300005038
  • Preston, Paul (1991). Recent Spanish labour history. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 68(4), 507-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475382912000368507
  • Preston, Paul (1990). Persecuted and persecutors: modern Spanish Catholicism. European History Quarterly, 20(2), 285-292.
  • Preston, Paul (1988). The decline and resurgence of the Spanish Socialist Party during the Franco regime. European History Quarterly, 11(2), 207-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/026569148801800204
  • Preston, Paul (1988). General Franco reassessed: inertia and risk. World War and Cold War, 1939-1953. International Journal of Iberian Studies, 1(1).
  • Preston, Paul (1979). The Spanish Constitutional Referendum of 6 December 1978. West European Politics, 2(2), 246-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402387908424239
  • Preston, Paul (1979). The stability of democratic Spain. Contemporary Review, 234(1), 89-114.
  • Preston, Paul (1979). The struggle against fascism in Spain: Leviatan and the contradictions of the Socialist left, 1934-6. European Studies Review, 9(1), 81-103.
  • Preston, Paul (1977). The origins of the socialist schism in Spain 1917-1931. Journal of Contemporary History, 12(1), 101-132.
  • Preston, Paul (1976). The dilemma of credibility: the Spanish Communist Party, the Franco regime and after. Government and Opposition, 11(1), 65-84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1976.tb00196.x
  • Preston, Paul (1975). Spain's October Revolution and the rightist grasp for power. Journal of Contemporary History, 10(4), 555-578.
  • Preston, Paul (1973). The "moderate" right and the undermining of the Second Republic in Spain 1931-1933. European Studies Review, 3(4), 369-394.
  • Preston, Paul (1972). Alfonsist monarchism and the coming of the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History, 7(3), 89-114.
  • Preston, Paul (1972). Spain in crisis: the assassination of Carrero Blanco and its aftermath. Iberian Studies, 3(1).
  • Book
  • Preston, Paul (2024). Perfidious Albion: Britain and the Spanish Civil War. The Clapton Press.
  • Preston, Paul (2023). Architects of terror: paranoia, conspiracy and anti-semitism in Franco’s Spain. Harper Collins.
  • Preston, Paul (2020). A people betrayed: a history of corruption, political incompetence and social division in modern Spain 1874-2018. Harper Collins.
  • Preston, Paul (2019). Un pueblo traicionado: corrupcion, incompetencia politca y division social. Editorial Debate.
  • Preston, Paul (2016). The last days of the Spanish Republic. W. Collins & Co..
  • Preston, Paul (2014). The last Stalinist: the life of Santiago Carrillo. W. Collins & Co..
  • Preston, Paul (2013). El zorro rojo: la vida de Santiago Carrillo. Editorial Debate.
  • Preston, Paul (2012). The destruction of Guernica. HarperPress.
  • Preston, Paul (2012). The Spanish holocaust: inquisition and extermination in twentieth-century Spain. Harper Collins.
  • Preston, Paul (2012). The Spanish holocaust: inquisition and extermination during the civil war and after. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Preston, Paul (2009). We saw Spain die: foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War (revised and expanded edition). Constable & Robinson.
  • Preston, Paul (2008). El gran manipulador: la mentira cotidiana de Franco. Ediciones B (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (2008). Franco: el gran manipulador. Editorial Base.
  • Preston, Paul (2007). Idealistas bajo las balas: corresponsales extranjeros en la Guerra de España. Editorial Debate.
  • Preston, Paul (2007). Idealistes sota les bales: històries de la Guerra Civil. Edicions Proa.
  • Preston, Paul (2007). Pombas de guerra: quatro mulheres na Guerra Civil de Espanha. Campo das Letras, Editores.
  • Preston, Paul (2006). Botxins i repressors: els crims de Franco i dels franquistes. Editorial Base.
  • Preston, Paul (2006). La Guerra Civil Española. Editorial Debate.
  • Preston, Paul (2006). The Spanish Civil War: reaction, revolution and revenge. Harper Perennial.
  • Preston, Paul (2005). La guerra civil: las fotos que hicieron historia. Esfera de los Libros.
  • Balfour, Sebastian, Preston, Paul (Eds.) (2004). España y las grandes potencias en el siglo XX. Editorial Crítica.
  • Preston, Paul (2004). Juan Carlos: a people's king. Harper Collins.
  • Preston, Paul (2004). Juan Carlos: steering Spain from dictatorship to democracy. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Preston, Paul, Alvarez, Asuncion, Cervera, Alfons, Chacon, Dulce, de la Cruz, Sabina, Espina, Manuel, Etxeberria, Francisco, Forjas, Teresa, Francos, Teo & Gavilan, Enrique et al (2004). La memoria de los olvidados. Un debate sobre el silencio de la represión Franquista. Ambito (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (2003). Juan Carlos. Plaza y Janés.
  • Preston, Paul (2002). Doves of war: four women of Spain. Harper Collins.
  • Preston, Paul (2002). Franco. Grijalbo Mondadori (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (2001). El triunfo de la democracia en España. Random House Mondadori.
  • Preston, Paul (2001). La destrucción de la democracia en España: reforma, reacción y revolución en la segunda República. Grijalbo Mondadori (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (2001). Palomas de guerra: cinco mujeres marcadas por el enfrentamiento bélico. Plaza y Janés.
  • Preston, Paul (2000). La guerra civile spagnola 1936-1939. Bruno Mondadori (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul, Partridge, Michael, Prazmowska, Anita J. (Eds.) (1999). British documents of foreign affairs: reports and papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print Series A: the Soviet Union and Finland, 1946. University Publications of America (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (1999). Comrades: portraits from the Spanish Civil War. Harper Collins.
  • Balfour, Sebastian, Preston, Paul (Eds.) (1999). Spain and the great powers in the twentieth century. Routledge.
  • Preston, Paul, Saz, Ismael (Eds.) (1998). Dynamism and conflict: Valencia 1808-1975. University of Glasgow/Carfax Publishing.
  • Preston, Paul, Mackenzie, Ann (Eds.) (1996). The Republic besieged: civil war in Spain 1936-1939. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Preston, Paul (1996). A concise history of the Spanish Civil War. Fontana.
  • Preston, Paul (1995). Franco: a biography. Fontana.
  • Preston, Paul (1994). The coming of the Spanish Civil War: reform reaction and revolution in the Second Spanish Republic 1931-1936. Routledge.
  • Preston, Paul, Lannon, Frances (Eds.) (1990). Elites and power in twentieth-century Spain: essays in honour of Sir Raymond Carr. Oxford University Press.
  • Preston, Paul (1990). The politics of revenge: fascism and the military in 20th century Spain. Unwin Hyman (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul, Graham, Helen (Eds.) (1987). The popular front in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Preston, Paul (1986). The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (1986). The triumph of democracy in Spain. Methuen & Co..
  • Preston, Paul (Ed.) (1984). Revolution and war in Spain. Methuen & Co..
  • Preston, Paul, Smyth, Denis (1984). Spain, the EEC and NATO. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • Preston, Paul (1978). The coming of the Spanish Civil War: reform reaction and revolution in the Second Spanish Republic 1931-1936. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Preston, Paul (Ed.) (1976). Spain in crisis: the evolution and decline of the Franco regime. Harvester Press.
  • Chapter
  • Preston, Paul (2014). The psychopathology of an assassin: General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano. In Anderson, Peter, Ángel del Arco Blanco, Miguel (Eds.), Mass killings and violence in Spain, 1936-1952: grappling with the past (pp. 23-58). Routledge.
  • Preston, Paul (2012). A Catalan contribution to the myth of the contubernio Judeo-Masónico-Bolchevique. In Quiroga, Alejandro, del Arco, Miguel Ángel (Eds.), Right-Wing Spain in the Civil War Era: Soldiers of God and Apostles of the Fatherland, 1914-45 (pp. 177-194). Continuum (Firm).
  • Preston, Paul (2010). No Soldier: the courage and comradeship of Dr Len Crome. In Jump, Jim (Ed.), Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War (pp. 31-44). Lawrence & Wishart.
  • Preston, Paul (2010). The crimes of Franco. In Jump, Jim (Ed.), Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War (pp. 177-197). Lawrence & Wishart.
  • Preston, Paul (2010). Juan Tusquets: una contribución catalana al mito del contubernio judeo-masónico-bolchevique. In del Arco Blanco, Miguel Angel, Quiroga Fernandez de Soto, Alejandro (Eds.), Soldados De Dios y Apóstoles De la Patria (pp. 358-371). Editorial Comares.
  • Preston, Paul (2010). Theorists of extermination. In Amago, Samuel, Jerez Ferran, Carlos (Eds.), Unearthing Franco’s Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recuperation of Historical Memory in Spain (pp. 42-67). University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Preston, Paul (2009). Proleg. In Langdon-Davies, John (Ed.), Darrere Les Barricades . Angle Editorial.
  • Preston, Paul (2008). Preface: Gibraltar: "a dagger in the spine of Spain ". In Stockey, Gareth (Ed.), Gibraltar: "a Dagger in the Spine of Spain" . Sussex Academic Press.
  • Preston, Paul (2008). Prologo. In Southworth, Herbert R. (Ed.), El Mito De la Cruzada De Franco . Random House Mondadori.
  • Preston, Paul, Chapman, Nigel (2007). Introduction: behind the Spanish barricades. In Langdon-Davies, John (Ed.), Behind the Spanish Barricades . Reportage Press.
  • Preston, Paul (2007). Preface: the Spanish right and the Jews, 1898-1945: antisemitism and opportunism. In Rohr, Isabelle (Ed.), The Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Antisemitism and Opportunism . Sussex Academic Press.
  • Preston, Paul (2005). Los esclavos, las alcantarillas y el capitán Aguilera: racismo, colonialismo y machismo en la mentalidad en el cuerpo de oficiales nacionales. In Munzo Soro, Javier, Luis Ledesma, Jose, Rodrigo, Javier (Eds.), Culturas y Políticas De la Violencia. España Siglo Xx . Siete Mares Editorial.
  • Preston, Paul (2004). The monarchy of Juan Carlos: from dictator's dreams to democratic realities. In Balfour, Sebastian (Ed.), The Politics of Contemporary Spain (pp. 27-38). Routledge.
  • Preston, Paul (2000). Preface: consensus politics in Spain. In Threlfall, Monica (Ed.), Consensus Politics in Spain. Insider Perspectives . Intellect Press.
  • Preston, Paul (1999). Franco's foreign policy 1939-1953. In Leitz, Christian, Dunthorn, David J. (Eds.), Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959 (pp. 1-18). Berghahn Books.
  • Preston, Paul (1999). La historiografía de la Guerra Civil española: de Franco a la democracia. In Granja Sainz, José Luis de la, Reig Taper, Alberto, Miralles, Ricardo (Eds.), Tuñon De lara y la Historiografía Española (pp. 161-174). Siglo Veintiuno de España Editores.
  • Balfour, Sebastian, Preston, Paul (1999). Spain and the great powers in the aftermath of the disaster of 1898. In Balfour, Sebastian, Preston, Paul (Eds.), Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century (pp. 13-31). Routledge.
  • Preston, Paul (1990). Francisco Largo Caballero. In Kern, Robert W., Dodge, Meredith D. (Eds.), Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.). https://doi.org/10.1336/0313259712
  • Preston, Paul (1986). Julian Besteiro. In Gorman, Robert A. (Ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Marxism . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Preston, Paul (1986). Luis Araquistain. In Gorman, Robert A. (Ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Marxism . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Preston, Paul (1982). Accion Espanola. In Cortada, James W. (Ed.), Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Preston, Paul (1982). Santiago Carrillo. In Cortada, James W. (Ed.), Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Blog post
  • Preston, Paul (4 March 2022) From the role of international volunteers to debates about Western intervention, there are many comparisons to be made between Ukraine and the Spanish Civil War. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf