Giles Tremlett: 3 books
Isabel la Católica
La primera gran reina de Europa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 23, 2017
La biografía definitiva de Isabel la Católica, la reina que definió y consolidó las bases del imperio español en el siglo XV.
En 1474, una mujer culta, inteligente y fervientemente religiosa de apenas veintitrés años ascendió al trono de Castilla, el reino más poderoso y extenso de...
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...
Isabella of Castile
Europe's First Great Queen
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain into a principal global power, and sponsored the voyage that would open the New World.
In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal), a twenty-three-year-old woman...