We Saw Spain Die by Paul Preston

We Saw Spain Die by Paul Preston is the story of the Spanish Civil War as told by the foreign correspondents and journalists that covered the story. It is a vast and detailed view of the complications imposed on fact by ideology, partiality, special interest and downright self-promotion. It also charts how some people actually tried to be faithful to what they saw. By and large, journalists do not come out of this book with enhanced reputation. A few do, and it's largely the ones you have never heard of.

Tourism in Western Europe: A Collection of Case Histories:
Richard Voase provides an interesting collection of case studies regarding Western European tourism development. The case studies are well organized in three thematic areas based on political, economic and socio-cultural contexts. The collection of stories communicates changes in tourism development and practices and reflects how tourism development seeks for new ways of tourism thinking.

Rage Against the Dying Light By Jan Surasky:
Boudicca is the legendary warrior queen famous for leading the last uprising against the Roman Empire during the first century. This novel explores what Boudicca's life may have been like growing up as a Celtic princess destined to become a queen.

Nothing Left To Lose Written By Allan G Johnson:
The author has gone deep into areas that are hard to explain in a very unique book that conveys the feelings, thoughts, and actions of military personnel, present and former. William and Anne are the parents of two boys; one is Joshua who is serving his country fighting a war for his country in Vietnam. The other son is Andrew who is in the ROTC program in his high school.

Bring Up the Bodies - By Hilary Mantel:
The focus of our attention is of course Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith's son who ran away from home to escape the fists of his father. His role in settling his king's affairs in so final a fashion is the story. He could take an abominable rumour, turn it inside out, and shape into a believable charge of treason. He would then 'dig out a jury', and bully it to a guilty verdict. To gratify his belligerent king, he would not rest until the victim has been marched to the scaffold and beheaded.

A Book Review On "The Melian Dialogue":
The Melian Dialogue is an account of the confrontation in 416-415 BC, between the Athenians and the people of Melos, a small island in the southern Aegean Sea. Melos was a neutral island, lying just east of Sparta; the Athenians wanted to conquer the island to intimidate the Spartans. In general, "the Dialogue is formally not about the morality of the eventual execution, but about the Melian response to the Athenians' first demand, that Melos should submit.

Australian Battalion Regimental History Books:
Australian Battalion History Books were some of the first Australian military war books to be published about Australia's military involvement in WWI. At the start of World War One Australian Infantry Battalion soldiers were recruited from the Civil Militia Battalion Units. Subsequent recruitment was structured on the Pals Battalions as devised by Lord Kitchener.

Why Did China Seek Friends in Africa in the 1950s:
In the 1950s, fascination, confusion, and even alarm are adjec-tives that best described the reaction of many political observers to the Chinese seeking friends and allies in Africa. An executive editor of the New York Times, Mr. Seymour Freidin, wrote: Red Chinese drive into Africa involves a long range effort to dominate the continent totally and populate it with Chinese.