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Excerpt from Durham: A PoemHe died, this mighty conqueror, and bequeath'd The realm to his son Rufus, the Red King. Now it befell the Abbot of this shrine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ori...

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The author assesses the role of the Catholic Church in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and afterwards.

Robert E Quirk and his future wife Marianne, were Wayne State University students when they met and fell in love in 1941, but they were quickly parted when Quirk was drafted. Here, decades after their marriage and the end of the war, Quirk shares the letters they exchanged during World War II, that reveals personal glimpses of life in the 1940s.

Fidel Castro emerges as an ambitious rebel, from his earliest years into his student years and adulthood. In gripping detail, Quirk follows Castro as his first, failed attempt to bring down the regime of Fulgencio Batista is followed by the small-scale attacks from the Sierra Maestra mountains that culminate in the dictator's flight from Cuba in 1959 and Castro's sweep into power. The story provides a new account of Castro's relations with th...

In April 1914 three minor incidents occurred in Mexico: the arrest of several American sailors, the detention of a mail courier, and the delay of an official Department of State dispatch. Less than two weeks later, United States military forces landed at Veracruz and remained to occupy it for more than six months. What were the causes underlying this action, and what was the United States trying to achieve? Robert Quirk examines the motives wh...