Michael Alpert

These Spanish picaresque novels focus on the adventures of two unlikely heroes - delinquent picaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentleman, thieves, tricksters and murderers. The tales are sharply critical of the Church and the conventions of nobility, and contain grotesquely exaggerated depictions of the criminal underworld. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), published anonymously, provided a literary model for Cervantes in Don Quixote and describes the ingenious ruses employed by a boy from Salamanca to outwit a succession of disreputable masters. Francisco de Quevedo's The Swindler (1626) is a comic, yet brutal and sordid account of a servant who wants to become a gentleman but ends up as a cardsharp and a common criminal. For this edition Michael Alpert has updated his translation from the original Penguin Classics edition, with a new map, chronology of events, notes and further reading.

And, Francisco de Quevedo : The Swindler (El Buscón) : Two Spanish Picaresque Novels

Lazarillo de Tormes

A narration of the investigation and trial of Maria and Frederick Manning for the murder of Patrick O'Connor, set within the social turmoil of mid-nineteenth century London.

A Victorian Murder Story

London 1849

Cyrptojudaism and the Spanish Inquisition explores Spanish secret Judaism and the Inquisition, which strove to uproot the "Judaizing heresy" among baptized Jews and their descendants. Even in the 18th-century, Cryptojudaism was still prevalent, but the Inquisition finally triumphed. This book describes the private lives of the cyrpto-Jew, as revealed in their confessions, together with their fate in prison and at the auto defeat at which they abjured their Judaism and were reconciled to the Church or, if not, burnt at the stake.

Crypto-judaism and the Spanish Inquisition

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against legitimate neutral, largely British, merchant shipping bound for Spanish Republican ports and challenges to the Royal Navy, which was obliged to maintain a heavy presence in the area. The conflict provoked splits in British public opinion. Events at sea both created and reflected the international tensions of the latter 1930s, when the policy of appeasement of Germany and Italy dissuaded Britain from taking action against those countries’ activities in Spain, except to participate in a largely ineffective naval patrol to try to prevent the supply of war material to both sides. The book is based on original documentary sources in both Britain and Spain and is intended for the general reader as well as students and academics interested in the history of the 1930s, in naval matters and in the Spanish Civil War.

Dark and Dangerous Waters

The Spanish Civil War at Sea

'...a lucid and scholarly account of an important and immensely complex subject...Dr. Alpert's command of a broad range of archival material, printed documents and secondary works in six languages is extremely impressive.' - P. Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science It is now twenty years since a study was dedicated to the international aspects of the Spanish Civil War and this new synthesis covering the whole of the era and setting it against major events of the late 1930s is well overdue. Michael Alpert takes full advantage of newly accessible archival sources to disentangle the intricacies of this complex issue.

A New International History of the Spanish Civil War

«La mejor crónica en un solo tomo de la guerra aérea en España que se ha publicado Stanley g. Payne, catedrático emérito, Universidad de Madison-Wisconsin. «Michael Alpert se ha convertido en uno de los principales expertos internacionales en la dimensión militar de la Guerra Civil española a través de sus obras sobre el Ejército republicano y los aspectos navales del conflicto. Ahora consolida su prestigio con este apasionante estudio de la guerra aérea. Aunque se centra en el papel de la Legión Cóndor, el libro destaca por sus estampas sobre la contribución tanto de los italianos como de los soviéticos». Paul Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science. La Guerra Civil española se libró por tierra y por mar, pero también en una época de auge y gran interés por la guerra aérea y por el rápido desarrollo de los aviones de combate. La contienda llegó en un momento crucial en el desarrollo de la aviación militar y fue el escenario donde se ensayaron las nuevas técnicas de la guerra aérea, como por ejemplo los combates a alta velocidad, los ataques contra los buques, el bombardeo de las zonas civiles y la cooperación táctica aire-tierra. En el centro de aquella guerra aérea estaba la Legión Cóndor, una unidad formada por personal militar de la Alemania de Hitler que combatió en España en el bando sublevado de Franco. Michael Alpert describe y analiza de forma excepcional y aguda la intervención de la aviación alemana, italiana y soviética en la contienda, así como el suministro de aviones en general o el papel de los aviadores voluntarios o mercenarios. Su libro aporta nuevos puntos de vista sobre la guerra aérea en España, los precedentes que sentó para la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y las posibles lecciones aprendidas.

Alemanes, soviéticos e italianos en los cielos de España

La Guerra Civil en el aire

Hilary S. Pomeroy

This collection of eighteen papers delivered at the twelfth biennial British Judeo-Spanish Studies conference, held in London in 2001, offers a wide selection of world-wide current research into the language, literature, and history of the Sephardi Jews. With contributions by Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tracy K. Harris, Jill Kushner Bishop, Judith R. Cohen, Alexia Duchowny, Dora Mancheva, Aitor Garcia Moreno, Elaine R. Miller, Aldina Quintana, Samuel G. Armistead, Julia R. Lieberman, Ronnie Perelis, Angel Berenguer Amador, Messod Salama, Rena Molho, Rivka Havassy, Maria Esformes and Matilde Morcillo Rosillo.

Sephardic Language, Literature and History

Proceedings of the Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-SpanishStudies, 24-26 June, 2001

This is a long-awaited translation of a definitive account of the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Alpert examines the origins, formation and performance of the Republican Army and sets the Spanish Civil War in its broader military context. He explores the conflicts between communists and Spanish anarchists about how the war should be fought, as well as the experience of individual conscripts, problems of food, clothing and arms, and the role of women in the new army. The book contains extensive discussion of international aspects, particularly the role of the International Brigades and of the Soviet Russian advisers. Finally, it discusses the final uprising of professional Republican officers against the Government and the almost unconditional surrender to Franco. Professor Alpert also provides detailed statistics for the military forces available to Franco and to the Republic and biographies of the key figures on both sides.

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