Harriet and James's interwoven stories of love and betrayal propel this sweeping and dramatic novel as it moves between Regency London on the cusp of modernity--a city in love with science, the machine, money--and the shocking violence of war in Spain.

Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be in the leading edge of battle.

What do the Silk Road, sewers of Istanbul, Marco Polo, Mongolia and the Holy Land have in common? That is what the protagonists, Ottavia Salina and Farag Boswell, will have to find out while again putting their lives in danger to solve a mystery that starts in the first century of our era.

La Europa turbulenta de los a�nos treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX es el escenario de las andanzas de Lorenzo Falc�o, ex contrabandista de armas, esp�ia sin escr�upulos, agente de los servicios de inteligencia. Durante el oto�no de 1936, mientras la frontera entre amigos y enemigos se reduce a una l�inea imprecisa y peligrosa, Falc�o recibe el encargo de infiltrarse en una dif�icil misi�on que podr�ia cambiar el curso de la historia...

""Daddy always said it takes a man of peace to stop a war." Based on the true story of Paul Robeson's visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, comes this recollection of his bravery and activism by his granddaughter, Susan Robeson, with her debut book. When Susan was a child her father and grandfather told her family stories over and over. Grandpa Paul was a great man, a singer with a deep and rumbling voice, a man of peace and principle...

"The best history book at the year"-Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Times Literary Supplement (UK). "A masterpiece of twenty-first-century European Literature."--Jordi Gracia, El Pais. In February 1981, Spain, still emerging from Franco's shadow, was in the process of electing a new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering...

The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters...

"Twenty-eight storytellers--one for each letter in the Arabic alphabet--meet in a garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, arrested in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. Eusebio, a friend of García Lorca and his Circle, had escaped assassination and fled to North Africa."--Jacket.