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The Reconquista: Seven Centuries of War for the Soul of the Iberian Peninsula

The Reconquista: Seven Centuries of War for the Soul of the Iberian Peninsula

Castillo-Marsh, Rodrigo B. de

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General Military HistoryHistoriographySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN13: 9798189788987
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the summer of 711, a kingdom fell in three years.

In a damp mountain cave in 722, a handful of survivors refused to let it stay fallen.

What followed was not a war. It was seven and a half centuries of it, a slow burning, endlessly shifting struggle that would consume more than twenty generations before it finally, improbably, reached its conclusion on a January morning in 1492.

THE RECONQUISTA is the sweeping, character driven history of that struggle, from Pelayo's desperate stand at Covadonga to the golden splendor of Cordoba under the caliphs, from the terror of Almanzor's annual campaigns to the legendary, deeply complicated career of El Cid, a man who fought for Muslim kings as readily as Christian ones. It follows the fall of Toledo, the near catastrophe at Alarcos, the empire breaking Christian victory at Las Navas de Tolosa, and the extraordinary decade in which Ferdinand III conquered Cordoba and Seville within a single reign. It ends where every reader already knows it must: at the gates of Granada, where Boabdil surrendered the keys to the Alhambra and, with them, the last independent Muslim kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula.

This is history written to be devoured, not studied. Every chapter reads like a chapter of a novel, propelled by ambition, betrayal, faith, and the extraordinary individuals who shaped an era, kings and caliphs, poets and generals, mercenaries and monarchs, but every fact is drawn from the verified historical record. You will not find the simplified myth of an unbroken holy war here, nor the equally simplified myth of an unbroken golden age. You will find something far more compelling: the real story, in all its contradiction, alliance, betrayal, and brilliance.

Inside, you will discover:

- Why a battle in a forgotten mountain gorge became the founding myth of an entire nation

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