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  • BRITONS IN SPAIN

    The History of The British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade

    by William Rust ...
    A history of the British Battalion of the XVth International Brigade, of the two thousand British volunteers who fought, bled and died on Spanish soil between August 1936 and December 1938. The killed and missing numbered five hundred, the wounded over twelve hundred; many were incapacitated for life. Less than eight hundred remained in the ranks when the withdrawal took place. Their story is one ... Read more

    $4.03 USD

  • Thoughts of Emotions

    by William Rust ...
    These poems are short stories about an emotion that the author was feeling, pieces of his life in words frozen in time. By reading these poems, you will get to know him and what he was going through in life. These are the thoughts of emotions, and he hopes you will enjoy and feel what he felt at the time he wrote the poem. ... Read more

    $9.99 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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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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  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    Revolution and Counterrevolution

    by Burnett Bolloten ...
    The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten’s exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War (“The Grand Camouflage:, 1961; “The Spanish Revolution”, 1979; “The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution”, 1986), covers the entire period of the war from 1936 to 1939. Welsh-born Bolloten, initially a Communist ... Read more

    $5.37 USD

  • 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

    $16.39 USD