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Journey To Hell
Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good and the work was easy - or so he thought. Then the truth was revealed: he had to sail to South America to collect one of the biggest shipments of cocaine ever bound for the...
Bolivar
The Liberator of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Simon Bolivar freed no fewer than what were to become six countries-a vast domain some 800,000 square miles in extent-from Spanish colonial rule in savage wars against the then-mightiest military machine on earth. The ferocity of his leadership and fighting earned him the grudging nickname the devil”...
Story of a Death Foretold
The Coup Against Salvador Allende, September 11, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
On the fortieth anniversary of revolution and rebellion in Chile, a searching history of the rise and fall of the world's first and only democratically elected Marxist president.
On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto...
by Charles F. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass alliance against European-born usurpers but degenerated into a vicious caste war, leaving a legacy that still influences South American politics today.
Brazil
The Fortunes of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In 1939, Brazil seemed a world away from the chaos overtaking Europe. Yet despite its bucolic reputation as a distant land of palm trees and pristine beaches, Brazil’s natural resources and proximity to the United States made it strategically invaluable to both the Allies and the Axis alike. As...
by João Capistrano de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1998
In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the...
A Vanished Arcadia
Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Chapter I Early history — State of the country — Indian races — Characteristics of the different tribes — Dobrizhoffer's book — Various expeditions — Sebastian Cabot — Don Pedro de Mendoza...
by Pedro de Cieza de Leon
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1999
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available...
From Boer War to World War
Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen...
Shadows in an African Twilight
Game Ranger Soldier - Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Game Ranger, Special Force Soldier, Professional Hunter and Personal Security Officer - Shadows in an African Twilight is a collection of fascinating stories about a life of adventure spread across nearly four decades in Africa and culminating in Iraq.Many of the stories are not for the squeamish and...
A Damn Close-Run Thing
A Brief History of the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs,...
Knowing Mandela
A Personal Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela...
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
The History of the Shipwreck That Inspired Moby Dick
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore.
It’s story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in...
by Ava Waddell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The origin of Coca leaves is dated back roughly 4,000-8,000 years ago which is native to the South America, has been utilized as medicinal herbs as well as a medicine and so-called stimulant in Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, but mainly in Peru and Bolivia. This book is an effort to present...