Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, andanzas de un editor popular (1880-1901)

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Considerando que ha pasado a la historia como Iván el Terrible, el primer zar de Rusia difícilmente podría haber sido un Boy Scout.

Durante la Guerra de la Independencia, miles de españoles de toda clase y condición social abandonaron los campos y trabajos que les proporcionaban sustento y se organizaron subversiva y espontáneamente, al margen de las viejas y deslegitimadas instituciones de poder, en grupos heterogéneos que castigaron una y otra vez durante años al hasta entonces invencible ejército francés. Al frente de esa gran aportación española a la moderna táctica militar "-a guerra de guerrillas- se situó toda una generación de líderes surgidos del pueblo llano que con escasos efectivos consiguió...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...