Matthew Carr
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"To know what war is, one should follow our tracks," Gen. William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Sherman's Ghosts is an investigation of those tracks, as well as those left across the globe by the American military in the 150 years since Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea."
Sherman's Ghosts opens with an epic retelling of General Sherman's fateful decision to terrorize the South's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on "the brutal frontiers of new Europe," Fortress Europe is the story of how the world's most affluent region-and history's greatest experiment with globalization-has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian crisis that has galvanized the world's attention.
Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life remarkable human dramas, based on ex- tensive interviews and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
When a famous scientist is killed in bombing attack in 1909 Barcelona, private detective Harry Lawton teams up with a young anarchist and a crime reporter to investigate a series of deaths linked to a blood-drinking animal.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a...
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