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Author : Frederick Sayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018809319
Author : Roy Adkins,Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221635
A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American colonies in the War of Independence. Located between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, on the very edge of Europe, Gibraltar was a place of varied nationalities, languages, religions, and social classes. During the siege, thousands of soldiers, civilians, and their families withstood terrifying bombardments, starvation, and disease. Very ordinary people lived through extraordinary events, from shipwrecks and naval battles to an attempted invasion of England and a daring sortie out of Gibraltar into Spain. Deadly innovations included red-hot shot, shrapnel shells, and a barrage from immense floating batteries. This is military and social history at its best, a story of soldiers, sailors, and civilians, with royalty and rank and file, workmen and engineers, priests, prisoners of war, spies, and surgeons, all caught up in a struggle for a fortress located on little more than two square miles of awe-inspiring rock. Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History is an epic page-turner, rich in dramatic human detail—a tale of courage, endurance, intrigue, desperation, greed, and humanity. The everyday experiences of all those involved are brought vividly to life with eyewitness accounts and expert research.
Author : Patrick Skipworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : 0995577048
The Story of Gibraltar: A timeline guide to the history of the Rock from earliest times to the present day.
Author : Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : UOM:39015013347672
Forfatteren var britisk guvernør i Gibraltar 1978-1982 og har her skrevet om den berømte halvøs og dens befolknings historie fra de tidligste tider til vore dage.
Author : Gilbard (Lieut.-Colonel, George James)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : UCAL:$B49031
Author : Marc Alexander
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475349
A history of Gibraltar.
Author : Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010116064
Traces Gibraltar's role in world affairs paying special attention to its strategic position in the British Empire.
Author : Ignacio López de Ayala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018811331
Author : Frederic George Stephens,J. H. Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : UCAL:$B543181
Author : J. H. Mann
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290903441
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Frederick Sayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:185636063
Author : James Solas Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1781
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600075226
Author : J. H. MANN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033104353
Author : William Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501117923
A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America’s bloodiest battle ever—World War I’s Meuse-Argonne Offensive—and the shocking American cover-up at its heart. The year is 1918. German engineers have fortified Montfaucon, an elevated fortress in northern France, with bunkers, tunnels, and a top-secret observatory capable of directing artillery shells across the battlefield. Following a number of unsuccessful attacks, the French have deemed Montfaucon impregnable. Capturing it is the key to success for General John J. Pershing’s 1.2 million troops and his plan to end the war. But a betrayal of Americans by Americans results in a bloody debacle. In his masterful Betrayal at Little Gibraltar, William Walker tells the full story for the first time. After a delay in the assault on Montfaucon, thousands of Americans lost their lives while the Germans defended their position without mercy. Years of archival research show the actual cause of the delay was a senior American officer, Major General Robert E. Lee Bullard, who disobeyed orders to assist in the direct assault on Montfaucon. The result was the unnecessary slaughter of American doughboys during the assault. Although several officers learned of the circumstances, Pershing protected Bullard—an old friend and fellow West Point graduate—by covering up the story. The true and full account of the battle that cost 122,000 American casualties was almost lost to time. A "military history for all libraries" (Library Journal), Betrayal at Little Gibraltar tells of the soldiers who fought to capture the giant fortress and push the American advance. Using unpublished first-person accounts—and featuring photographs, documents, and maps—Walker describes the horrors of combat, the sacrifices of the doughboys, and the determined efforts of two participants to solve the mystery of Montfaucon. This is compelling history, important to be told, an "as valuable account as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August" (Virginian-Pilot).
Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : Open Letter Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781934824047
Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the Sailor from Gibraltar.''