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Author : William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson
Publisher : Ashford PressPub
ISBN 13 : 9780948466144
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rock of the Gibraltarians written by William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson and published by Ashford PressPub. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rock of the Gibraltarians written by Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nicholas Rankin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571307736
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Defending the Rock written by Nicholas Rankin and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler's failure to take Gibraltar in 1940 lost him the Second World War. But in truth the formidable Rock, jutting between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, was extraordinarily vulnerable. Every day, ten thousand people crossed its frontier to work, spy, sabotage or escape. It was threatened by Spain, Vichy France, Italy and Germany. After the USA entered the war, Gibraltar became General Eisenhower's strategic headquarters for the invasion of North Africa and the battle for the Mediterranean.
Author : M.G. Sanchez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955246531
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rock Black written by M.G. Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rock Black', M. G. Sanchez's critically acclaimed short story sequence, takes us back to the late 80s and early 90s - a time when large quantities of tobacco were being smuggled from Gibraltar into Spain, the British government was threatening the colony with direct rule, and the Spanish authorities were subjecting the Gibraltarians to a concerted campaign of political harassment. Within its pages we find an almost anthropological gallery of types' reluctant tobacco smugglers, drunken English squaddies, small-town hedonists, Costa del Sol prostitutes, passing hippie travellers, as well as the constantly resurfacing figure of the jobless Gibraltarian teenager Peter Rodriguez. Described by Dr Rob Stanton (South University, Savannah, Georgia) as a necessary corrective after a prolonged period of silence, ' 'Rock Black' remains a powerful and original piece of fiction.
Author : George Hills
Publisher : London : Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rock of Contention written by George Hills and published by London : Hale. This book was released on 1974 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Alexander
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752475347
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gibraltar written by Marc Alexander and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Gibraltar is one of siege, starvation, plague, and battles interspersed with periods of peace. The colony's civilian population is made up of a rich and complex racial mix of exiled Jews, French royalists, Maltese merchants, emigrants from India and Genoese fishermen who fled Napoleon. Marc Alexander's book is the first full history of the rock for many years, providing the background to a unique community and a chronicle of a remarkable chapter in British military history. Even now, at the beginning of the new millennium, the future of teh 6.5 square km territory is still uncertain. An important RAF base, it is a fragment of Britain's imperial past set uneasily in the territory of a fellow member of the European Union apparently eager to reclaim it. Gibraltar's dramatic history is far from over.
Author : Mary Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.L8/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of the Rock written by Mary Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard O'Connor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244850194
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Blowing up the Rock: German, Italian and Spanish Sabotage attacks on Gibraltar during the Second World War written by Bernard O'Connor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, Gibraltar faced the threat of invasion by Italy, Germany, and Spain. The Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service, rather than use their own saboteurs, paid young Spanish men to undertake over sixty sabotage attacks on military installations and shipping with limited success. The Italian Decima Flotilla MAS, a specialist team of underwater frogmen, launched eight attacks which were relatively successful and Spanish Falangists made several unsuccessful attempts. The British Secret Intelligence Service endeavoured to stop or at least limit such attacks. Using contemporary files from the National Archives in Kew, autobiographies, biographies, histories and newspaper articles, this documentary history investigates the successes and failures of these attacks on Gibraltar and the roles played by intelligence officers, agents, double agents in discovering and preventing such acts. The book sheds light on an unusual and largely overlooked aspect of Gibraltar's history.
Author : Roy Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221634
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gibraltar written by Roy Adkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Gold
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415347952
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gibraltar written by Peter Gold and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed study of the attempts that have been made by Spain, to regain the sovereignty of 'the Rock', despite the wishes of the Gibraltarians.
