Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-nominee David J Weber, whose "The Spanish Frontier in North America" marked a new era of scholarship about Spain in North America, narrows his focus here to the period 1804-1827 in Taos, New Mexico, and the life of a Spanish Colonial manor house...read more

Product Description: Jan, a Czech refugee who joined the French Air Force in the war as an air gunner, was shot down over Germany. Whilst sheltering in a farmhouse he found a motherless Alsation pup which he named Antis. Together they succeeded in getting back to the French lines; it was the beginning of a partnership which lasted for thirteen years, and Antis became the first non-British dog to win the Dicken Medal - the animal's V...read more