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A Knight's Tale
Of all able captains of whom it might have stood in fear, Florence was most at the discretion of this one man.-Niccolo Machiavelli Europe writhes in the grasp of the Black Death as an enigmatic English knight ventures into war-torn medieval Italy. Based on exhaustive research, this is splendidly realized historical fiction and a truly compelling adventure. Edward John Crockett is a translator and editor of numerous books, including sports biographies, art history, and film biographies. He is the author of the novel Bering: A Novel of the Russian Imperial Northern Expedition. He lives in southern Brittany.
The Sallee Rovers
PIRACY, POLITICS AND POWER SET AGAINST THE VIBRANT BACKDROP OF THE INFAMOUS SIXTEENTH CENTURY BARBARY COAST The year is 1576. A raid on the English township of Poole sees the abduction of sixteen year-old Jonathan Comber and his young sister Emma. Jonathan is taken to the North African port of Sale by renegade corsair captain Joshua Ward; Emma is auctioned into slavery and consigned to the harem of the Bey of Algiers. In the interim, brothers Miguel and Rodrigo de Cervantes Saavedra, veterans on their way home from service in the Spanish garrison in Naples, have been captured by North African pirates and imprisoned in the notorious jail of Algiers, from which they are resolved at all costs to escape. THE SALLEE ROVERS charts the progressively interlinked destinies of these principal characters against a complex ethnic and cultural backdrop. The novel draws on the documented experiences of Miguel de Cervantes, who languished five years in an Algerian prison before being ransomed and returned to his native Spain, where he would go on to write his celebrated novel DON QUIXOTE ...
The Ghosts of Walter Crockett
Ed Crockett, the son of an absent and alcoholic father, grew up in poverty in a crowded house on Portland's Munjoy Hill in the 1970s. He recounts his days growing up with the ever-present specter of a drunken father and then overcoming the odds to become a successful businessman and politician. The book is not just a tale of struggle and perseverance, but also a story of love, redemption, and ultimately forgiveness.
The Path to European Defence
After the Internal Market and the Introduction of the Euro, the European Union is making the decisive steps towards the next large project on the way to European unification, which is European Defence. The recent Iraqi crisis has shown that a common European foreign policy is more necessary than ever. In spite of this shortfall, there has been important progress: The European crisis intervention force, such as it was defined in Helsinki in 1999, has already been deployed successfully in two operations. Still, creating a European Defence is an ongoing process, where Europe has to continue to improve its capabilities. The direction that the European Union will have to take in the coming years ...
Occam's Razor
Celebrated fourteenth-century philosopher theologian William of Ockham held that the simpler or simplest of two or more conflicting theories - namely the one requiring the fewest assumptions to be made - must always prevail and be preferred. He applied this principle so rigorously and with such fervour that it came to be known as 'Occam's Razor'. ' ...Oliver Prescott Markham had been proud of his dense thatch of unfashionably long silver-grey hair. There was little of it left. The back of his skull had disintegrated. Blood and fragments of bone were spattered over the rich green turf, darkening and congealing in a late autumn sun ...' The assassination of prominent political guru and presidential advisor Oliver Markham triggers worldwide speculation as to perpetrators and motives. A team of maverick professionals is retained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to contribute to the investigation into Markham's death. They come up virtually empty-handed until they begin to suspect that some things may be infinitely less complicated than they at first appear...ed. As William of Ockham had always maintained: KEEP IT SIMPLE!
