Spain category: 3192 books
The Telling Room
A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • The Christian Science Monitor
In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone...
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried.’
—from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ by Charles Wolfe
One of the best remembered poems in the English language has served to keep alive the memory of Sir John Moore and of...
by Irving Richman
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The Spaniard of the fifteenth century is recognizable by well-defined traits: he was primitive, he was proud, he was devout, and he was romantic. His primitiveness we detect in his relish for blood and suffering; his pride in his austerity and exclusiveness; his devoutness in his mystical exaltation...
by Charles Lummis
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
It is now an established fact of history that the Norse rovers had found and made a few expeditions to North America long before Columbus. For the historian nowadays to look upon that Norse discovery as a myth, or less than a certainty, is to confess that he has never read the Sagas. The Norsemen...
by Major Harry Ross-Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Although the 32nd Regiment was primarily recruited in and around Cornwall, leading to many scraps with the Navy for manpower, in its ranks during the Napoleonic wars the two Irish brothers of the Ross-Lewin family fought, the elder brother Harry left an exciting and vibrant account of his campaigning.
His...
by James Falkner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That...
by Lieutenant John Brumwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
There is something particularly affecting when reading the posthumously published letters of a soldier who has fallen in battle. The hope of a future rings out clear from John Brumwell’s letters back to his family in the north of England whilst he toils in the Duke of Wellington’s army in Spain...
Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St Vincent, G.C.B. Vol. I
Admiral of the Fleet &C. &C. & C.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Earl St. Vincent was not only an excellent administrator, a fine sailor and undaunted defender of the Royal Navy. He was also eclipsed in the tomes of history by his more famous protégé, Lord Nelson. Sir John Jervis had served for many years with distinction before Nelson’s birth; defending Jamaica...
The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland
The Grand Armada Lost on the Irish Coast in 1588
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
The English navy inflicted a narrow defeat on the Armada, but it was the Irish coast that encompassed its downfall.
'Heed that coast!' The Duke of Medina Sidonia wanted only to guide La Felissima Armada home safely. In the North Sea he issued sailing instructions, which, if they had been followed,...
The First Circumnavigators
Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey’s masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors,...
by Paul Preston
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War. This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and...
The Spanish Civil War 1936–39 (1)
Nationalist Forces
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The Spanish Civil War, 1936–39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash of 20th-century ideologies, between the rebel Nationalist army led by General Franco (right-wing, and aided by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy), and...
The Dispatches of Hernan Cortes the Conqueror of Mexico
Addressed to the Emperor Charles V. Written During the Conquest, and Containing a Narrative of Events
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The Dispatches of Hernan Cortes, or the 'Cartas de Relacion', are several extraordinary documents written by the great Conquistador himself, explaining his actions in the remarkable conquest of Mexico directly to the Emperor Charles V of Spain. Not since Julius Caesar documented his own Conquest...
The Bull and The Ban
Exploring The Catalan Ban On Bullfighting
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
In 2012, Catalonia, an autonomous province of Spain, abolishes bullfighting, and Cat Tosko decides to make a documentary about it, "The Bull and The Ban". This is the book of the exclusive interviews, essays and photos with matadors such as Francisco Rivera Ordóñez (Death and...