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  • The Fatal Knot

    The Guerrilla War in Navarre and the Defeat of Napoleon in Spain

    by John Lawrence Tone ...
    John Tone recounts the dramatic story of how, between 1808 and 1814, Spanish peasants created and sustained the world’s first guerrilla insurgency movement, thereby playing a major role in Napoleon’s defeat in the Peninsula War. Focusing on the army of Francisco Mina, Tone offers new insights into the origins, motives, and successes of these first guerrilla forces by interpreting the conflict from ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898

    by John Lawrence Tone ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the “Splendid Little War” of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization in the twentieth century.Employing newly released evidence — including hospital records, intercepted Cuban ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • A Rose for Winter

    Travels in Andalusia

    by Laurie Lee ...
    A passionate ode to the magic of Spain, composed by one of its most ardent admirersFifteen years after the events described in his acclaimed autobiographies, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War, Laurie Lee returned to Spain, the land of his youth and experience. He found a country bowed but not broken, where the heavy gloom of the recent past was shot through with the vibrant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conquest

    Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

    by Hugh Thomas ...
    Series series Gift for History Buffs
    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 in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Franco

    by Geoffrey Jensen ...
    Before becoming one of the longest-ruling dictators of the twentieth century, Francisco Franco commanded troops in the kinds of wars that have since become all too familiar. He not only waged vicious counterinsurgency campaigns against Muslim warlords and defiant tribes in Morocco, but he also led a multinational force to victory in EuropeÆs ôdress rehearsalö for World War IIùthe Spanish Civil War ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • THE SPANISH COCKPIT

    An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War

    by Franz Borkenau ...
    Austrian sociologist and disillusioned former Comintern official Franz Borkenau visited Republican Spain between August and September 1936, and again in January-February 1937. The account of his first-hand experiences as an independent socialist observer in revolutionary Spain,‘T***he Spanish Cockpit***’, was published in the early summer of 1937, when it impressed and influenced the recently ... Read more

    $5.37 USD

  • A Time to Risk All

    The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved hundreds of children from Nazi Concentration Camps

    by Clodagh Finn ...
    Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her story is finally remembered. The children called her 'Miss Mary', and they remember her kindness still. She gave them food and shelter and later risked her life to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle of Barrosa

    Forgotten Battle of the Peninsular War

    by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    By the winter of 181011, the armies of Napoleon had overrun most of Spain and Joseph Bonaparte sat on the throne in Madrid. But the Spanish Government had found refuge in the fortress-port of Cadiz and the Spaniards refused to admit that they had been conquered. With a British army under Sir Thomas Graham helping to defend Cadiz, the Spanish cause seemed certain to prevail.But then the Spaniards ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Spanish Civil War Tanks

    The Proving Ground for Blitzkrieg

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 170 - New Vanguard
    The tanks used during the Spanish Civil War are not often examined in any great detail, and are often labeled as little more than test vehicles in a convenient proving ground before World War II.But, with groundbreaking research, armor expert Steven J Zaloga takes a fresh look at the tanks deployed in Spain, examining how future tanks and armored tactics were shaped and honed by the crews' ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles

    Enriched edition. Insights into Naval Strategy and Military History during the Spanish-American War

    by A. T. Mahan, Brooke Shepherd ...
    In "Lessons of the War with Spain and Other Articles," A. T. Mahan offers a comprehensive analysis of the pivotal conflict that marked a turning point in American imperialism. The book employs a clear and cogent literary style, blending historical narrative with incisive commentary, and reflects Mahan's position within the broader context of naval strategy and military analysis at the turn of the ... Read more

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  • Talavera 1809

    Wellington’s lightning strike into Spain

    by René Chartrand ...
    Series Book 253 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated account of the battle of Talavera in 1809, one of the major battles of the Peninsular War.The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington. Although Wellesely's forces were outnumbered, and a sizeable contingent of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Wolfram Wars: Exposing The Secret Battle in Portugal

    by Rod Ashley ...
    Wolfram – also known as Tungsten – is about more than electric light bulbs. Its more deadly claim-to-fame rests in its armour-piercing qualities.During WWII, Wolfram was in great demand with both the Allies and Axis powers who scoured the globe for the precious material; indeed, they deployed huge resources to secure supplies whilst simultaneously doing their best to sabotage and undermine one ... Read more

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