Matthew Ryan Carr

My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past

Reviews' Bill Carr embodied all the idealism and sickness of the colonial mind and his son's narrative is a monumental exploration of the paradoxes of Empire. It is written as if from the pen of a novelist, superbly plotted with a marvellous sense of the intricacies of character and a panoramic view...

PRINCIPLES OF NAVAL ENGINEERING: Propulsion and Auxiliary Systems (Blue & Gold)

This textbook covers the basic design and operating principles of the propulsion and auxiliary systems of today's Naval forces. The topics include the main components in the propulsion and auxiliary systems for both conventional and nuclear steam propulsion, gas turbine power plants (for both ship a...

Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain

A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr’s riveting and richly detailed” (Choice) chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history.Months after King Philip III of Spain signed an edict i...

Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent

Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with globalization—has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian c...

Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

To know what war is, one should follow our tracks,” General William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Sherman’s Ghosts is an investigation of the "tracks" left by the wars fought by the American military in the 150 years since Sherman's infa...

Matthew Carr

Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration

The Devils of Cardona

In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim terrorist as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the Fre...