The Last Crusader

Author : Louis De Wohl
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681495101

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The Last Crusader by Louis De Wohl Pdf

Don Juan of Austria, one of history's most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant's hut. Acknowledged by King Philip as his half-brother, the attractive youth quickly became a central figure in a Court where intrigues and romances abounded. Don Juan's intelligence, kindness and devout attachment to the Church enabled him to live unscathed in an environment of luxury, violence and treachery. De Wohl paints in brilliant color the vivid scenes and characters at the Court of King Philip, Juan's campaign against rebel Moriscos in Andalusia, and the amazing climactic victory at Lepanto where he saved the Christian world from Islamic dominance. Here is a novel of high adventure which brings to life the turbulence of the sixteenth century with its conflicts of wickedness and piety, its sins of pride and conquest, its seething heresies and its great faith.

Author : Warren Hasty Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89099015802

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The Last Crusade by Warren Hasty Carroll Pdf

Why be satisfied with leftist propaganda on the Spanish Civil War? Carroll's treatment of the events of 1936 is singular in Anglo-American scholarship for seeing the conflict for what is truly was: a death struggle against the Christian faith and a war against Christian civilization in Europe. This outstanding work of scholarship illustrates the phenomenon of the traditionalist as revisionist: the distortions of decades of Marxist historiography are overturned in Carroll's narration of the bloody struggle to preserve Western civilization in the heart of 20th century Europe.

Author : Nigel Cliff
Publisher : Atlantic
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 1848870191

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The Last Crusade by Nigel Cliff Pdf

Originally published in hardcover as: Holy war. New York: HarperCollins, c2011.

Author : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015021950137

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Isabella of Spain by William Thomas Walsh Pdf

Called by her people Isabella la Catolica, she was by any standard one of the greatest women of all history. A saint in her own right, she married Ferdinand of Aragon, and they forged modern Spain, cast out the Moslems, discovered the New World by backing Columbus, and established a powerful central government in Spain. This story is so thrilling it reads like a novel. Makes history really come alive. Highly readable and truly great in every respect!

Author : Helena P. Schrader
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627875189

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The Last Crusader Kingdom by Helena P. Schrader Pdf

John d'Ibelin, son of the legendary Balian, will one day defy the most powerful monarch on earth. But first he must survive his apprenticeship as squire to a man determined to build a kingdom on an island ravaged by rebellion. The Greek insurgents have already driven the Knights Templar from the island, and now stand poised to destroy Richard the Lionheart's legacy to the Holy Land: a crusader foothold on the island of Cyprus.

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247827

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The High Crusade by Poul Anderson Pdf

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave¾they've launched their invasion against free Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive¾and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. Unfortunately, he has not allowed for the treachery of the alien pilot, who instead takes the craft to his home planet, where, he thinks, these upstart barbarians will have no choice but to surrender. But that knavish alien little understands the indomitable will and clever resourcefulness of Englishmen, no matter how great the odds against them... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Frank Miller,Brian Azzarello
Publisher : DC
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T1548100015001

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The Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade (2016-) #1 by Frank Miller,Brian Azzarello Pdf

Before the Dark Knight returned... The Joker. Poison Ivy. Selina Kyle. And the last Robin.

Author : William Thomas Walsh
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786259929

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Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader by William Thomas Walsh Pdf

Called by her people Isabella la Catolica, she was by any standard one of the greatest women of all history. A saint in her own right, she married Ferdinand of Aragon, and they forged modern Spain, cast out the Moslems, discovered the New World by backing Columbus, and established a powerful central government in Spain. This story is so thrilling it reads like a novel. Makes history really come alive. Highly readable and truly great in every respect!

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429997249

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The Crimean War by Orlando Figes Pdf

Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires—the British, French, Turkish, and Russian—in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553384710

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Conquistador by Buddy Levy Pdf

In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitlán Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.

Author : Robert C. Jenkins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375054175

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The Last Crusader by Robert C. Jenkins Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Author : Robert Charles Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Church history
ISBN : BSB:BSB10064160

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The Last Crusader by Robert Charles Jenkins Pdf

Author : Samuel Bawlf
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926706245

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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf Pdf

In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf offers fascinating insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century, from the dangers of mutiny and the difficulty of understanding patterns of wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake’s men. But it is Bawlf's assertion of Drake’s whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives his book its exciting originality. Based especially on his seminal study of maps produced after the voyage, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska, much farther north than anyone has heretofore imagined, thereby rewriting the history of exploration. He was, Bawlf claims, in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, at which he planned to found England’s first colony, and wrest control of the Pacific from Spain. Drake’s voyage was in fact so far ahead of its time that another 200 years would pass before the eighteenth-century explorers of record reached the northwest coast of North America.

Author : Jeffrey Loefer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499055603

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The Last Crusader by Jeffrey Loefer Pdf

A crusader named Brock has a dream of impending doom—of him, his comrades, and the town of Cornwallis—from goblins and trolls. Was the dream just a dream? Or was it a vision of the future that he and his friends need to be ready for?

Author : Vivian Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015049832200

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The Romance of the Last Crusade by Vivian Gilbert Pdf

"Very short, highly anecdotal memoir of a machine gun officer's WWI adventures in France, the Balkans, and finally with Allenby across Arabia. Many of the anecdotes are entertaining, even moving. This book does a decent job reminding us that Allenby's army did most of the heavy lifting, while the threat of Lawrence's band on the flanks or cutting down a column on the move made the Turks quick to retreat rather than get boxed in at the end of the campaign. One is left wondering how many men from Gilbert's unit survived the whole war, first in the trenches of France, a few months of combat near Salonika, and finally enduring the very harsh conditions and lack of supply in the Middle East." --