Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

'The Battle for Spain' revisits the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of material from the Spanish, Russian & German archives. The author's account narrates the origins of the Civil War & its violent course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three

Spain in Our Hearts - Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Hochschild Adam)(Paperback / softback)

The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil

Stalingrad (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the war on the eastern front. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler's territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his

Crete - The Battle and the Resistance (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

Reissue with a new Introduction by acclaimed historian Antony Beevor vividly bringing to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War

Carpenter's Pencil (Rivas Manuel)(Paperback / softback)

It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. Many years later in post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, Doctor Daniel da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be

Seamstress (Duenas Maria)(Paperback / softback)

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Young, poor Sira Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco, her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned, left penniless and in debt to the authorities, she has to rely on the one

!No Pasaran! - Writings from the Spanish Civil War(Paperback / softback)

International writing from the Spanish Civil War, from both behind and at the front

The Horseman's Song (Pastor Ben)(Paperback)

Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo Franco's volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon, The Road to

Arnhem - The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail which we have come to expect

Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous

Spanish Civil War - Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (Preston Paul)(Paperback / softback)

UPDATED EDITIONA rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General

Decisive Battles of the English Civil War (Wanklyn Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of the English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill,

Essential Eight Decisive Battles of the Civil War (Walsh Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (Graham Helen)(Paperback)

Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the lay-reader alike. This Very Short Introduction integrates the political, social and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War. It sets out the domestic

Second World War (Beevor Antony)(Paperback / softback)

A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military

Orwell in Spain (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help. Orwell in Spain also

Shadows Over the Spanish Sun (Montague Caroline)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping tale of love, betrayal and war, set in the heat and turmoil of the Spanish Civil War. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley, Tracy Rees and Dinah

The Spanish Civil War: Revised Edition (Thomas Hugh)(Paperback)

'Mr. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.'--Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best,

Homage to Catalonia (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, the author brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony BurgessHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital

Battle Tactics of the Civil War (Griffith Paddy)(Paperback)

In Battle Tactics of the Civil War, Paddy Griffith argues that, far from being the first 'modern' war, it was the last 'Napoleonic' war, and that none of the innovations of industrialized warfare had any significant effect on the

Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge (Beevor Antony)(Paperback)

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies

Abandoned Spain (Lens Fran)(Pevná vazba)

Towns bombed during the Spanish Civil War that were never rebuilt; an international railway station once teeming with Nazi and Allied double agents, now concealing a state-of-the-art dark matter research laboratory; a former munitions dump hewn out of the mountainside; a winery whose vast tanks

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution: 1936-1939 (Richards Vernon)(Paperback)

Lessons of the Spanish Revolution examines the many ways in which Spain's revolutionary movement contributed to its own defeat. Was it too weak to carry through the revolution? To what extent was the purchase of arms and raw materials from outside sources dependent upon the appearance of a