Don Guillén de Lampart, hijo de sus hazañas

Before becoming one of the longest-ruling dictators of the twentieth century, Francisco Franco commanded troops in the kinds of wars that have since become all too familiar. He not only waged vicious counterinsurgency campaigns against Muslim warlords and defiant tribes in Morocco, but he also led a multinational force to victory in Europe’s “dress rehearsal†for World War II—the Spanish Civil War. Born into a military family in 1892, Francisco Franco first made a name for himself leading attacks against rebellious Moroccan warlords and tribesmen and by 1926 was...

La figura de Mahoma, un humilde caravanero de La Meca que puso los cimientos de una religion de alcance mundial, ha suscitado siempre inacabables controversias. La experta Karen Armstrong comienza esta fascinante biografia explicando como, en la Arabia del siglo VII, en un ambiente politeista y politicamente desunido, Muhammad ibn Abdallah, Mahoma (570-632), vivio una experiencia mistica que cambio el curso de la historia: las revelaciones que pronto fructificarian en el Coran. Estudia despues los inicios de la nueva religion, el islam -palabra que significa "sumision" y "paz"-, y las...

Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these handsome, inexpensive volumes. These biographies detail the facts known about their subjects and emphasize their childhood, motivation, accomplishments, and humanity, as well as their impact on history. Figuras destacadas que han protagonizado los hechos m�s importantes de la historia est�n retratados en estos bellos vol�menes econ�micos. Tan fascinante como los hechos que los hicieron famosos, estas biograf�as detallan los hechos conocidos acerca de los sujetos con �nfasis en sus ni�eces, sus...

Rigorously objective, journalist Joaquín Bardavío pens this monumental biography, the most complete among those that have been published about Franco and his time.