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by Gerald Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Entirely revised and updated in summer 2018 with improved rural maps.
A practical guide to walking the Camino de Santiago/Camino Francés with information about pilgrim hostels and services plus lots of background information about the history, culture and architecture of the places you will...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
“Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world.” —Stephen Greenblatt
“A captivating adventure…For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page…Magnificent.” —The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Book...
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, formerly of the Grenadier Guards
and M.P. for Stafford: being Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court and the Clubs at the close of the last war with France
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Captain Gronow, joined the Grenadier guards as a young subaltern in 1812, having completed his studies at Eton and was widely know in England and the Continent thereafter as a raconteur and a fine pistol shot. His “Reminiscences” span four volumes in their original edition, an edited version was...
by Sir John William Fortescue
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar...
Facing Unpleasant Facts
Narrative Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly).
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that...
The Spanish Civil War
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
“Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”—Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’sThe Spanish Civil War remains...
Guernica
The Crucible of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
How and why the cultural and religious capital of the Basque people was reduced to rubble by the Nazi Condor Legion air force. The first—and only—book to have interviewed all survivors of the blitzkrieg and those who launched it.
by William H. Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The story of the fall of the Inca civilisation in Peru is one of the most astonishing episodes ever to occur in history; and in the skilful hands of William H. Prescott, one of America's greatest historians, it takes on a new dimension. The narrative positively seethes with detail, drama, as the...
by Matthew Restall
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and...
by Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established...
Conquest
Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.
Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures...
The Last Day
Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five...
Building Utopia
The Spanish Revolution 1936-1937
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Within the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements there were three distinct points of view on the question of war and revolution. The first, probably the majority view, was that the war would be over in a matter of weeks, after all, a few days had been enough to rout the army in Barcelona...
BARRICADES IN BARCELONA
The CNT from the victory of July 1936 to the necessary defeat of May 1937
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
BARRICADES IN BARCELONA focuses on Barcelona in 1936-1937; it provides an account of the street battles and victory of July 1936, examines the defence and neighborhood committees that defeated the uprising in the city, and addresses the arbitrary decision of the CNT-FAI superior committees to collaborate...