Spain category: 3192 books
by Kelly Lipscomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
With the northern half of the Spanish Meseta all its own, this is unmistakably big sky territory. It is the largest autonomous region in Spain, covering a full one-fifth of the country's territory, and is larger than some EU countries, including neighboring Portugal. The Spaniards born in this sweeping...
Bernardo de Gálvez
Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements...
Spain in Arms
A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Spain in Arms is a new military history of the Spanish Civil War. It examines how the Spanish Civil War conflict developed on the battlefield through the prism of eight campaigns between 1937-1939 and shows how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon half-truths and...
Forging the Past
Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies,...
Conqueror And Administrator:
Civil And Military Actions Of Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet In The Spanish Province Of Aragon, 1808
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
During the Peninsular War in Spain from 1808 to 1813, Marshal Suchet not only successfully fought the Spanish “Guerillas” but he also skilfully administrated the province of Aragon. He made it a relatively safe and prosperous place for his troops, while the rest of Spain became a nightmarish quagmire...
by Geoffrey Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Before becoming one of the longest-ruling dictators of the twentieth century, Francisco Franco commanded troops in the kinds of wars that have since become all too familiar. He not only waged vicious counterinsurgency campaigns against Muslim warlords and defiant tribes in Morocco, but he also led a...
by Melveena McKendrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain are most often remembered for the epochal voyage of Christopher Columbus. But the historic landfall of October 1492 was only a secondary event of the year. The preceding January, they had accepted the surrender of Muslim Granada, ending centuries of Islamic...
by Jay Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
In the summer of 1588, a great body of ships sailed from Spain on a Crusade: to restore England to Catholicism. The ensuing events brought a Spanish word, armada, into the English language and created a host of legends. Intrepid English sea dogs in tiny ships, it was said, had bravely faced down towering...
The Wise King
A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization
"If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, "Many...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Countries around the Mediterranean Sea oddly has wonderful cuisine and authentic aroma. You have Spain, France, Italy and Morocco, and you’re going to learn about them in this ebook. But aside from the cuisine, you will also learn about the culture, traditions and best sights for tourism. Open this ebook and take a tour.
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past
Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death...
by Laurie Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The author of Cider with Rosie continues his bestselling autobiographical trilogy with “a wondrous adventure” through Spain on the eve of its civil war (Library Journal).
On a bright Sunday morning in June 1934, Laurie Lee left the village home so lovingly portrayed in his bestselling memoir,...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Madrid (Spain) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Jane V. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
What do you like most when reading about adventures: descriptions about the terrain, the culture, the challenges, the personal growth, the interactions between other adventures? Women of the Way: Embracing the Camino successfully combines all these elements in a heartfelt and personal recounting of...