[HIGHLIGHTS] Neither Spain was different, nor Franco was useless, nor was the dictatorship a one-man thing.

Historian Nicolás Sesma has published a new history of Franco's regime. The book, Ni una, ni grande, ni libre, is 572 pages long and includes 186 bibliography and notes.

He says the dictatorship was not a one-man thing, but a system of selectors. The historian is now a professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, in the south of France. He is also the author of several other books, including The Origins of Totalitarianism and Anatomy of Fascism.