God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

David Levering Lewis (Norton)

An account of Islam’s collision with Dark Ages Europe and the ensuing political and cultural revolutions, from the fall of the Persian and Roman empires through to the rise of prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain.

Peninsular Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War in Spain and Portugal 1808-1813

Charles Esdaile
Pen & Sword

The story of the British struggle against Napoleon in the Peninsula told through memoirs, letters and eyewitness testimony, which provides an inside view of military affairs, the guerrilla war and the impact of the fighting on the countryside and in the towns and cities.

British News Media and the Spanish Civil War

David Deacon

Edinburgh University Press

A study of the reporting of the Spanish Civil War, which examines the personalities, routines, pressures and structures that shaped news coverage of the war in Britain as it unfolded.