Spain category: 3192 books
Only in Spain
A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Why don't' you...run away with the gypsies?
Ten-hour shifts in a high-end department store and catering to snooty customers...Nellie Bennett's life wasn't supposed to turn out this way. But maybe all she needs to do is infuse a little passion into her routine—through flamenco dance lessons,...
Franco's Friends
How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco to Power in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Falangist uprising in July 2011, Franco's Friends tells the little-known true story of how MI6 orchestrated the coup that brought General Franco to power in Spain in 1936, leading to the Spanish civil war and 40 years of right-wing dictatorship....
TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA & CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA
From the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Author of Life of George Washington, History of New York, Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
"Tales of the Alhambra" is a collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories about the Moors and Spaniards. Through these stories, sketches and essays it is described the author's journey through Spain in Andalusia, where he gives a general description of the country and people. The collection...
Philip of Spain, King of England
The Forgotten Sovereign
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Spanish armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. however the same Spanish monarch who sent the armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor.
This important book sheds new light on Philip ii...
The Autobiographical Trilogy
Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A young man’s journey—from the international bestselling account of his idyllic childhood in rural England to “a poetic memoir” of the Spanish Civil War (The Washington Post).
In his acclaimed autobiographical trilogy, “one of the great writers of the twentieth century” presents...
by Martin Hume
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
FOR three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice...
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Fringe Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science...
Letters from Portugal and Spain: written during the march of the British troops under Sir John Moore
Letters from Portugal and Spain: written during the march of the British troops under Sir John Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Sir Robert Ker Porter’s life was as varied and dramatic as his paintings. A noted author, artist, soldier and diplomat, he was born into a military family in Durham. After developing a reputation for his painting, he travelled extensively in Northern Europe, before accepting commissions for historical...
The Ambulance Man And The Spanish Civil War
Forgotten Stories From Spain, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
The True Story of the Canadian Doctor and Ambulance driver that came to help a city in exodus.
Try to imagine that the city of Malaga is to be evacuated overnight. 150.000 people will have to walk 200km along the coastal road in search of a safe refuge whilst being pursued by Italian tanks, bombed...
A King Travels
Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras,...
Travels with My Donkey
One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
"'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous. . . .Yes, I'd never ridden a donkey on a beach or petted one at a city farm, never even pinned a cardboard tail to one's throat after the...
The Golden Empire
Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
From a master chronicler of Spanish history comes a magnificent work about the pivotal years from 1522 to 1566, when Spain was the greatest European power. Hugh Thomas has written a rich and riveting narrative of exploration, progress, and plunder. At its center is the unforgettable ruler who fought...
by Lieut.-Col. T.S. Sorell
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Few campaigns have started with the British Army being so muddled, or so outnumbered as the campaign that Sir John Moore began in 1808. Sent out by the London government to take charge of British forces in Portugal and Spain, his appointment coincided with a major effort by the French to take the...
by John Lawrence Tone
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization...