1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
The Quest For El Cid
Richard Fletcher
Rodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between el…
1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Jon Butler
Italy and its Monarchy
Denis Mack Smith
