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Spanish Civil War Tanks
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95The 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 has taken a fresh look at the tanks deployed in Spain, examining how future tanks and armored... more...
The Paleogene and Neogene of Western Iberia (Portugal)
Springer 2011; US$ 39.99This volume includes a general description of the Portuguese Cenozoic basins in the Iberian tectonic context. The main stratigraphic units, including sedimentological, stratigraphical and palaeontological data, are characterized. Correlations between different sectors are presented as well as general paleogeographical evolution maps. The volume includes... more...
A Vanished World
Free Press 2012; US$ 26.00In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. In 711, a ragtag army of Muslim North Africans conquered Christian Spain and launched... more...
Franco's Crypt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 29.99An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco?s Spain History is written by the victors: It?s a cliché, but a reliable one?except in the case of the Spanish Civil War. Here, it is the losers? version of events that has been believed. In his groundbreaking new book, Franco?s Crypt : Spanish Culture and Memory... more...
Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95The CR.32 Falco was a handsome and highly maneuverable bi-plane fighter. During General Franco's fight with the Republicans for the control of Spain from 1936 - 39, no fewer than 477 CR.32s were involved, with an astounding 709 confirmed aerial victories, and an additional 320 kills claimed, against just 62 losses. As these statistics reveal, the CR.32... more...
A Vanished World
Free Press 2012; Not AvailableIn a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. In 711, a ragtag army of Muslim North Africans conquered Christian Spain and launched... more...
A Vanished World
Free Press 2012; Not AvailableIn a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. In 711, a ragtag army of Muslim North Africans conquered Christian Spain and launched... more...
Spanish Republican Aces
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95At the start of the civil war, most young fighter officers joined the rebels (Nationalists). It was the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals who remained loyal to the government. The obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s and the three rare Hawker Furies were soon outpaced by the opposing more modern Fiat... more...
The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 80.00This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as conversos, descendants of converted Jews. more...
Death and Money in The Afternoon
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 18.99Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. This book argues that many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. more...









