Author: Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y López
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : es
Pages : 1319
Book Description
Elenco de grandezas y títulos nobiliarios españoles...
Author: Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y López
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 1319
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 1319
Book Description
The Politics of Revenge
Author: Paul Preston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134811136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134811136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.
Sixty Years of Jump Racing
Author: Robin Oakley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472935128
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images, Sixty Years of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the near loss of the Grand National, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival and the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies' demands for betting shop fodder. Pace and colour is provided by stories of the horses who have been taken to the heart of racing crowds, like the Irish-trained hurdler Istabraq and Best Mate, the three-times winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup for England. Famous rivalries and memorable races are re-lived and key victories revisited in portraits of and interviews with the owners, jockeys and trainers who have dominated the sport. The emphasis will be largely on the past fifty years-from Arkle to Tony McCoy-but a significant introduction by Edward Gillespie encapsulates the past history of what was previously known as 'National Hunt Racing' and sets the stories in context.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472935128
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Robin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. With elegant production and gripping images, Sixty Years of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport's ups and downs-like the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the near loss of the Grand National, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival and the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies' demands for betting shop fodder. Pace and colour is provided by stories of the horses who have been taken to the heart of racing crowds, like the Irish-trained hurdler Istabraq and Best Mate, the three-times winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup for England. Famous rivalries and memorable races are re-lived and key victories revisited in portraits of and interviews with the owners, jockeys and trainers who have dominated the sport. The emphasis will be largely on the past fifty years-from Arkle to Tony McCoy-but a significant introduction by Edward Gillespie encapsulates the past history of what was previously known as 'National Hunt Racing' and sets the stories in context.
Elenco de grandezas y titulos nobiliarios españoles
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 523
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 523
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Elenco de grandezas y títulos nobiliarios españoles
Author:
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ISBN: 9788489851474
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 1319
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9788489851474
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 1319
Book Description
Elenco de grandezas y títulos nobiliarios españoles 1999
Author: Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y López
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788489851122
Category : Nobility
Languages : es
Pages : 1317
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788489851122
Category : Nobility
Languages : es
Pages : 1317
Book Description
Elenco de grandezas y títulos nobiliarios españoles
Author: Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y López
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 635
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 635
Book Description
The Spy Wore Red
Author: Countess of Romanones Aline
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495365386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
THE SPY WORE RED, New York Times best seller listWhen Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model might be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society; or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society. This is the story of Aline, Countess of Romanones, a story of courage, beauty and success that will move readers with its amazing combination of autobiographical fact and narrative force. Reading The Spy Wore Red is like stepping into the script of Hitchcock's 1946 Cary Grant- Ingrid Bergman film Notorious. After confiding in 1943 to a young admirer her desire to serve the Allied cause, the fledgling model is recruited, sent to Washington. Trained as a spy and flown to Spain, Her mission: to uncover Madrid's high-society links to the German Nazi regime. As an undercover agent, Aline wends her way through lavish Madrid balls and dinners greeting the crème de la crème of Spanish society noting handshakes, wings and now among suspected – individuals. She and her colleagues live by code name, hers bing”Tiger” and by their wits. When security is breached, Aline is endangered, and she narrowly escapes several attempts on her life. When she falls in love with one of her fellow agents, complications-and hazards- abound. The Spy Wore Red is full of amazing plot turns, and readers will have to remind themselves they are reading a memoir. It is also full of astounding charters and some startling revelations about them: Madrid high society is peppered with Nazi spies, and successful- is to expose them. “My colleague Aline Romanones has written a Fascinating and exiting story evoking those marvelous days we served in the OSS in Europe. Her narrative reflects sensitively and accurately the clandestine intrigue and strategic maneuvers that marked the struggle between the secret services as well as the Allied and Axis powers and the atmosphere and high social live in wartime Spain.”William J. Casey, OSS agent, 1942-45, CIA director, 1981-1987
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495365386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
THE SPY WORE RED, New York Times best seller listWhen Aline Griffith was born in Pearl River, New York, in 1923, one might have guessed from her exceptional beauty that a career as an actress or a model might be in her future. Few would have imagined that twenty-one years later, she would find herself in Spain as a deep-cover OSS agent, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society; or that five years later still, she would marry a Spanish grandee and become one of the most watched, most admired, most fascinating women of international society. This is the story of Aline, Countess of Romanones, a story of courage, beauty and success that will move readers with its amazing combination of autobiographical fact and narrative force. Reading The Spy Wore Red is like stepping into the script of Hitchcock's 1946 Cary Grant- Ingrid Bergman film Notorious. After confiding in 1943 to a young admirer her desire to serve the Allied cause, the fledgling model is recruited, sent to Washington. Trained as a spy and flown to Spain, Her mission: to uncover Madrid's high-society links to the German Nazi regime. As an undercover agent, Aline wends her way through lavish Madrid balls and dinners greeting the crème de la crème of Spanish society noting handshakes, wings and now among suspected – individuals. She and her colleagues live by code name, hers bing”Tiger” and by their wits. When security is breached, Aline is endangered, and she narrowly escapes several attempts on her life. When she falls in love with one of her fellow agents, complications-and hazards- abound. The Spy Wore Red is full of amazing plot turns, and readers will have to remind themselves they are reading a memoir. It is also full of astounding charters and some startling revelations about them: Madrid high society is peppered with Nazi spies, and successful- is to expose them. “My colleague Aline Romanones has written a Fascinating and exiting story evoking those marvelous days we served in the OSS in Europe. Her narrative reflects sensitively and accurately the clandestine intrigue and strategic maneuvers that marked the struggle between the secret services as well as the Allied and Axis powers and the atmosphere and high social live in wartime Spain.”William J. Casey, OSS agent, 1942-45, CIA director, 1981-1987
Elenco de grandezas y titulos nobiliarios españoles
Author: Ampelio Alonso de Cadenas y López
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 523
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 523
Book Description
Elenco de grandezas y titulos nobiliarios españoles
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 523
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 523
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