Author: Michele AmariPublisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Sicilian Vespers, 1282
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers
Author: Michele AmariPublisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Sicilian Vespers, 1282
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Sicilian Vespers
Author: Steven RuncimanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107604742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians might seem just another resistance movement. But the events of 1282 came at a crucial moment. Steven Runciman takes the Vespers as the climax of a great narrative sweep covering the whole of the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century. His sustained narrative power is displayed here with concentrated brilliance in the rise and fall of this fascinating episode. This is also an excellent guide to the historical background to Dante's Divine Comedy, forming almost a Who's Who of the political figures in it, and providing insight into their placement in Hell, Paradise or Purgatory.
Night of the Sicilian Vespers
Author: C. P. BurbridgePublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662417519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Joseph Pulaski is an honest cop in turn-of-the-century New York City. A tough badge to wear, along with the one he serves for, the City of New York. But it gets even harder when probably the best friend he has turns up missing. Lt. Gus Petrano has been Pulaski's friend since their days in Five Points. Now his dwelling has been ransacked, and his famous Italian Squad has been disbanded. The daughter of the commissioner of police (Petrano's boss) has been kidnapped. He finds the United States Secret Service is involved, along with a mafia don from Sicily, a Chinese Tong leader, and the most powerful street gang leader in the city of New York. If that's not enough, he has pissed off Tammany Hall, who may be the most dangerous of them all. What ensues is a battle of wits that puts Pulaski and his team of Kelly Donaher and Noah Weber in a fight for their lives. It entails the Sicilian list, the Black Hand, and a battle for control of New York City's rackets.
History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers
Author: Michele AmariPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sicilian Vespers, Italy, 1282
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
History of the War of the Sicilian Vespers
Author: Michele AmariPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sicilian Vespers, Italy, 1282
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Sicilian vespers recalled to memory by the revolutions of modern Europe
Author: Charles Bohun SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sicilian Vespers, Italy, 1282
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Avenger; Or, The Sicilian Vespers: a Romance ...
Author: Sicilian VespersHistory of the War of the Sicilian Vespers
Author: Michele AmariPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sicilian Vespers, Italy, 1282
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Breakfast with the Dirt Cult
Author: Samuel FinlayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615622996
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"I'm going to make a pinkie-swear with you right here and now, Tom Walton; when, not if, you return from Afghanistan, you must come up here and I will have a mad passionate affair with you..." With this proposal, Thomas Walton, an infantry soldier in Alpha Company, Second Platoon, arrives at the threshold of events that will change his life forever. Breakfast with the Dirt Cult chronicles the days of love and war in the life of Tom Walton. Torn between a beautiful, bibliophilic, Canadian ex-stripper and the hunt for Al-Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan, Walton finds himself forced to grapple with being a young man in the days of modernity. While Breakfast with the Dirt Cult has been written as a novel, it is based on a true story. The names have been changed and the chronology has been condensed for the sake of editing.
Author: Michele Amari