Matthew Carr, Author . New Press $26.95 (410p) ISBN 978-1-59558-179-2
British author and journalist Carr (My Father's House
) bookends his engrossing, unsettling history—including accounts of murderous organizations like the 19th-century anarchists, the IRA, Mau Mau, Red Brigades, Basque separatists, FLN,...
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Matthew Carr, Author . New Press $28.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-59558-361-1
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 is a well-known tragedy. Less well-known is the later expulsion in 1609 of the descendants of the Moors, who had ruled Spain for centuries. Carr (The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
) examines...
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Matthew Carr. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59558-685-8
In this exposé of European immigration policy and its devastating effects, British journalist Carr (Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain) investigates the “contradictory character” of the 1985 Schengen Agreement, which opened borders between
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Matthew Carr. New Press, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59558-955-2
On November 15, 1864, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman led 60,000 troops on a 700-mile march through Confederate territory. In their wake they left a trail of destruction that has since become the stuff of military legend. In assessing the influence of
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Matthew Carr. Riverhead, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-1-10198-273-0
Depicting a 16th-century Spain rife with zealotry and Machiavellian scheming, Carr’s fiction debut is a satisfying effort. Carr (Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain) is an expert on the region’s history of religious tensions and puts that...
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Matthew Carr. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-64313-424-6
Set in 1909, this superior mystery from Carr (The Devils of Cardona) opens with a literal bang when a bomb planted in a Barcelona, Spain, café blows up a foreigner. The victim may be Randolph Foulkes, an English explorer, who’s been missing since...
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