Gibraltar. Conquered by no enemy
Alexander, Marc
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Gibraltar. Conquered by no enemy
Alexander, Marc
FICHA TÉCNICA
- Editorial: The History Press
- ISBN: 978-0-7509-3331-5
- Fecha de edición: 2008
- Idioma: Castellano
- Encuadernación: Tapa dura
- Dimensiones:
0 cm x 24 cm
- Nº páginas: 256
- Materias: Historia naval y marítima / Historia marítima /
The story of Gibraltar is one of siege, starvation, plague, and battles interspersed with periods of peace. The colony's civilian population is made up of a rich and complex racial mix of exiled Jews, French royalists, Maltese merchants, emigrants from India, and Genoese fishermen who fled Napoleon. This history provides the background to a unique community and a chronicle of a remarkable chapter in British military history. Even now, the future of the tiny territory is still uncertain. An important RAF base, it is a fragment of Britain's imperial past set uneasily in the territory of a fellow member of the European Union apparently eager to reclaim it. Gibraltar's dramatic history is far from over.