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Publisher:
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Drawing on new scholarship, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Woman Behind the New Deal presents a biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition and became one of the most influential female rulers in history.
Author:
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"No one believed I was destined for greatness. So begins Isabella's story, in this evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whosereign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World. Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner envisages the turbulent early years of a woman whose mythic rise to power...
Author:
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild was discovered some less familiar ... characters...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11.
Series:
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Publisher:
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the...
Author:
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"This ... original reinterpretation of the New World ... reveals how North and South emerged from a constant, turbulent engagement with each other. [The book] traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest--the greatest mortality event in human history--through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond. Grandin shows, among other things, how royalist Spanish...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Richard Sharpe novels volume 14.
Series:
Richard Sharpe novels volume 14
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Amid the splendor and elegance of the city of Salamanca, Sharpe stalks the infamous Leroux--under direct orders from Napoleon--whose target is "El Mirador," the spymaster whose network provides key information to the British.
10. Shadow of Spain
Author:
NoveList Series:
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 20.
Series:
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 20
Publisher:
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
"As King Philip of Spain prepares to invade England, Ursula heads to Brussels on a desperate mission ... March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire...
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