Robert Harvey, Author . Overlook $35 (478p) ISBN 978-1-58567-273-8
Journalist and former Minister of Parliament Harvey (Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence) projects a British bias but strives for balance while arguing that the Revolutionary War was more complicated than is typically...
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Robert Harvey, Author . Carroll & Graf $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1132-1
Harvey, formerly a member of Parliament and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, updates his comprehensive survey of established and emerging threats to world security. Harvey's synthesis covers the entire globe, featuring compressed set pieces...
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Robert Harvey, Author Overlook Press $40 (561p) ISBN 978-1-58567-072-7
With the verve of an engaging storyteller and the intrepidness of a journalist, Harvey (Portugal; Fire Down Below; etc.) presents an ambitious account of the seven men who swiftly and defiantly liberated Latin America from centuries of Iberian rule:
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Robert Harvey, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0769-0
Thomas Cochrane was one of the most successful captains in British naval history. He was the inspiration behind the famous novels of C.S. Forrester and Patrick O'Brian. Yet he was almost erased from his country's history by a corrupt Admiralty with...
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Robert Harvey. Skyhorse, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-61608-316-8
The last of the truly great military commanders before the advent of modern, impersonal warfare, Simón Bolívar led his men through thousands of miles of nearly impassable terrain, undeterred by shattering defeats and unimaginable privations, to...
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Robert Harvey, Author . Overlook $35 (480p) ISBN 978-1-58567-682-8
September 27, 1945, was a remarkable day. A vanquished emperor—one said to be directly descended from the sun goddess and possessing a blood line 2,000 years old—paid humble fealty to a middle-class, pipe-smoking American who hadn't...
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Robert Harvey, Author . Skyhorse $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-60239-356-1
Author of the excellent A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution
, British historian Harvey turns his attention to military leadership with modestly successful results. After listing a great commander’s...
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Robert Harvey, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $27.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-312-32909-9
The idea that communism in its heyday was just like a religion, complete with dogma, sacred texts, rituals and high priests, goes back to the 19th century and Marx's great antagonist, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. Harvey, a British journalist...
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Robert Harvey, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61887-2
Harvey, a British House of Commons member and former Economist correspondent for Latin America, here provides a useful overview of the contrasting natures of the area's individual countries and people, from the primitive to sophisticated, including...
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