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El soldado español forma parte inseparable del pasado y el presente de España. Es una memoria marcada por los avatares bélicos en los que intervinieron combatientes españoles a lo largo de los siglos: desde los celtíberos que se opusieron a la dominación romana o los legendarios tercios a las actuales Fuerzas Armadas, pasando por los guerreros medievales o los conquistadores de América. Fueron capaces de las mayores proezas y supieron sufrir...
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Tras el cruento ciclo de batallas en torno a Madrid que se sucedieron durante el primer invierno de la Guerra Civil española, parecería que la lucha en los flancos de la capital se había extinguido. Pero en los frentes estabilizados de Toledo y Guadalajara la matanza no había hecho más que empezar. Madrid nunca dejó de ser un objetivo militar de primer orden para los ejércitos en lucha, que ansiaban defenderla o expugnarla a cualquier precio....
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At the end of the 18th-century, Spain remained one of the world's most powerful empires. Portugal, too, was prosperous at the time. By 1808, everything had changed. Portugal was under occupation and ravaged by famine, disease, economic problems and political instability. Spain had imploded and worse was to come. For the next six-years, the peninsula was the helpless victim of others, suffering perhaps over a million deaths while troops from all over...
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The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's notoriety lies primarily in his Sherlock Holmes stories, which remain the quintessential crime and detective novels of the twentieth century. However, before his days of penning detective fiction for zealous audiences, Doyle found inspiration for his novel "The White Company" in an 1889 lecture on medieval times. He had read over a hundred volumes on the period of Edward III and the Hundred...
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En esta obra se estudian las armadas y flotas creadas por los Austrias Mayores para administrar y proteger aquel vasto imperio del que se dijera que el Sol no nacía ni se ponía. Trece armadas permanentes con sedes en distintos puertos españoles, italianos y americanos, que se agrupaban o a las que se les añadían otras escuadrillas privadas o estatales cuando las circunstancias lo aconsejaban.
En este libro se estudia el sistema naval del primer...
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Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Likely to become the standard work in English, the book treats the entire Iberian Peninsula and all the people who inhabited it, from the coming of the Visigoths in the fifth century to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Integrating a wealth of information about the diverse peoples, institutions, religions, and customs that flourished in the states...
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A new account of how Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique for over a decade.
Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique - one of the most beautiful countries in the world - for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take on the might of the Soviet Union and its collaborators-every single communist country on the planet and almost all...
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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 has discovered some less familiar yet compelling...
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... Y Franco salió de Tenerife es el resultado de una investigación sistemática elaborada desde el conocimiento de la geografía política del Archipiélago, su sociedad y su territorio. A partir de las más diversas fuentes canarias y estatales se relatan los hechos protagonizados por el general Francisco Franco durante su intensa estancia en Canarias durante la primavera e inicio del verano de 1936. Esta obra descarta ficciones, falsas tradiciones...
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Durante los siglos XVI y XVII, la Monarquía Hispánica erigió, a lo largo y ancho del globo, el mayor imperio habido hasta la fecha sobre la faz de la tierra. Un imperio forjado, a golpe de pica y arcabuz, por sus célebres tercios. Si en su clásico De Pavía a Rocroi el consagrado historiador Julio Albi analizaba magistralmente estas formidables unidades que durante siglo y medio dominaron los campos de batalla, Vidas Intrépidas. Españoles que...
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«Yo era cartero en Sevilla. Cuando se levantó Queipo de Llano, fueron a mi casa y me preguntaron: -¿Quieres a España? -Sí -contesté. -Pues venga -me dijeron-, que te está esperando en la cama y en camisón. Y de esa manera tan sencilla me vi en un camión y con un fusil en la mano».
El autor ahonda en aspectos poco estudiados como el de la lealtad geográfica y las familias divididas entre los dos bandos, la frecuente comunicación a través...
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Since ships first set sail in the Mediterranean, The Rock has been the gate of Fortress Europe. In ancient times, it was known as one of the Pillars of Hercules, and a glance at its formidable mass suggests that it may well have been created by the gods. Sought after by every nation with territorial ambitions in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Gibraltar was possessed by the Arabs, the Spanish, and ultimately the British, who captured it in the early 1700s...
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This is history as you have never experienced it before. The Spanish Civil War. 1937.
Hear the high-velocity bullets as they whiz past you, the frightening rattle of machine guns, the heavy rumble of approaching tanks and the whine of enemy aircraft overhead. Hear the surprised and anguished cries of your comrades as they fall around you, dead or badly wounded.
'From Suir to Jarama' tells the story of a young Irish volunteer, Mossie Quinlan, during...
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This monumental book offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War. Completed by Burnett Bolloten just before his death in 1987 and first published in English in 1991, The Spanish Civil War is the culmination of fifty years of dedicated and painstaking research and is the most exhaustive study on the subject in any language. It has been regarded as the authoritative political history of the war...
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Fundado en septiembre de 1935 en España, el POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista) desempeñó un papel importante durante la guerra civil (1936-1939), principalmente en Cataluña, región donde estaba mayoritariamente implantado. Desaparece de la escena política de manera prematura en junio de 1937 cuando fue declarado ilegal, siendo víctima de una doble persecución: franquista y comunista.
La implantación de un partido obrero en la...
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La bibliografía sobre la Guerra Civil española y la posguerra es abundante, sin embargo, la resistencia antifranquista, luchadores muchas veces anónimos, representa uno de los episodios menos documentados de la historia de España. Los trabajos existentes están dirigidos sobre todo a especialistas y faltaba una obra de referencia que manifestara cómo y quiénes eran estos guerrilleros y sus agrupaciones al tiempo que describiera la vida en la...
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Spain in Arms is a military history of the Spanish Civil War. It examines how the Spanish Civil War developed on the battlefield through the prism of eight campaigns between 1937-1939 and shows how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon half-truths and propaganda. The book is based upon nearly 60 years of extensive research into the Spanish Civil War, augmented by information from specialized German, Italian and Russian...
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War.
In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason:...
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The nineteenth-century author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow presents a vivid history of the Granada War, which ended Islamic rule in Spain. From 1482 to 1492, Catholic monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon mounted a series of military campaigns against the Nasrid kingdom of Granada. Washington Irving's acclaimed Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada describes the struggles and numerous battles of the ten-year conflict, which culminated...
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By the winter of 1810—11, 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 wanted to throw Graham's force into a reckless...
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