Spain category: 3192 books
by Robert Southey
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
"The Poem of the Cid," the earliest and best of the heroic songs of Spain, is a romance of history in more than three thousand lines, celebrating the achievements of the hero little more than fifty years after his death. Ruy Diaz, or Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, was born at Burgos...
by Neil Mars
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book is a compilation of texts, exercises, and a vast amount resources as used in the best universities to teach Portuguese to Foreigners. It includes the most effective methods to learn the Portuguese Language, either alone or with the help of a partner. It’s also an excellent manual to help...
Call of the Camino
Myths, Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The experiences of an ordinary man on the pilgrim’s path are charted in this narrative that walks along the Camino Francés to the shrine of Saint James at Santiago de Compostela and then on to Finisterre, the westernmost point of Spain. The history of the Camino is recounted, as well as several...
The Angel Tree
The Enchanting Quest for the World's Oldest Olive Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A serendipitous, fender-bending encounter between the author, a distinguished landscape architect, and a wealthy Frenchman in Provence leads to the strangest, funniest horticultural odyssey in recent memory. The rich, eccentric Frenchman has just finished renovating, with great care and attention,...
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal,...
by Eddie Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
An unfortunate brush with the law, a riderless customised motorbike, and a chance encounter with a gorgeous hippy girl has wild biker Eddie Rock heading straight for Amsterdam’s red light district to drink, think, and process his reckless antics of previous months.During his sabbatical in...
by Malyn Newitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Despite its modest size, Portugal has played a major part in the development of Europe and the modern world. In Portugal in European and World History Malyn Newitt offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world—from early Moorish times to the English Alliance of 1650–1900...
A History of the Peninsular War Volume I 1807-1809
From the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Battle of Corunna [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Illustrated with 9 maps and 2 portraits
The 1807-14 war in the Iberian Peninsula was one of the most significant and influential campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Arising from Napoleon's strategic need to impose his rule over Portugal and Spain, it evolved into a constant drain on his resources. Sir...
by Ignacio J.N. López
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries. Arguably the first permanent tactical formation seen...
by Thomas Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also seared on his own memory from his service in the war as an ensign and later lieutenant of the 29th Regiment...
by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
A masterful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and played a pivotal role in the end of his domination of Europe.
The author served with distinction in the actions of the Light Division, such as the epic march to Talavera, the battles of Fuentes d’Oñoro,...
Journal Of An Officer In The Commissariat Department Of The Army
Comprising A Narrative Of The Campaigns Under The Duke Of Wellington, In Portugal, Spain, France, And The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“A reporter's eye on great historical events
“Readers may be of the initial opinion that the view of an officer of the Commissariat Department would be necessarily less dynamic than that of a regimental officer. In fact, Daniel's position as a non-combatant has proved to be the exact opposite...
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by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The product of twenty years of laborious hard work, this is the definitive work on Napoleon and his times at the helm of the French Nation, written by no less than the first President of the Third Republic.
Thiers moved in the highest circles of society and met with many of the surviving generals...
From Valmy To Waterloo—Extracts From The Diary Of Capt. Charles François
A Soldier Of The Revolution And The Empire.
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
The cannonade of Valmy (1792) ranks as one of the most significant battles of all time for its strategic results: the defeat of the Prussian invasion heralded the beginning of the French Republic. At the field of Waterloo in 1815, no less a battle ended once and for all the ambitions of Napoleon to...