6/20/2023 0 Comments Franco stanley payne![]() ![]() “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. The problem is quite the opposite: he is extraordinarily generous with his time and, if anything, too quick to commit. Preston, it turns out, does not purposely avoid engagements. Another week later, the stars aligned, and we talked for hours. A subsequent attempt at a phone interview caught him in the midst of a frantic attempt to correct the Spanish and Catalan proofs for his forthcoming biography of Santiago Carrillo, the recently deceased Communist leader. A previously arranged meeting for an interview in London first had to be postponed, then canceled. And yet in person he can be quite elusive. Author of twelve books, editor of several more, and director of an important series on the subject, he towers mile-high in the landscape of Spanish Civil War scholarship. ![]()
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