Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
by William Sime
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Among the numerous and varied methods which the Catholic Church has adopted, to maintain its usurped sway over the minds and bodies of men, none has been more effectual than the erection of the Inquisition. Established for the purpose of taking cognizance of what it styles heresy, many are the victims...
The Spanish Inquisition
A Historical Revision, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new—and thought-provoking—view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context...
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...
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 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...
![Cover of History Of The Consulate And The Empire Of France Under Napoleon Vol. V [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2016/march/300x300/9781786259127-vuS8_300x.jpg)
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...
by Adelbert J. Doisy DeVillargennes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Adelbert DeVillargennes joined the French Navy in 1807 as an apprentice and managed to climb to the post of Midshipman but transferred to the ranks of the Grande Armée. He fought as a lieutenant in Austria, although wounded he returned to active service in Spain where he was captured by the British....
by Général de Division Baron Paul-Charles-François-Adrien-Henri Dieudonné Thiébault
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
General Thiébault was always destined for a career in the military: his father was a professor in the military school in Berlin and a friend of Frederick the Great. Having started as a volunteer in the Revolutionary army, he started to acquire a reputation for his knowledge of military matters and...
Fear and Loathing in La Liga
Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World's Greatest Sports Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid. It's Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs. Franco's fascists, plus majestic goals and mesmerizing skills. It's the best...
La Roja
How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
La Roja is bestselling author Jimmy Burns tremendous opus on Spanish soccer. From its early beginnings when the first soccer on the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires was played by British sailors and engineers, through to the influx of South American stars, and similarly inspirational Italians, Dutchman...