Hierro y sangre

En 1945, entre los escombros de la derrotada Alemania, las fuerzas aliadas vieron con sus propios ojos el horror del sistema contra el que habian luchado. Que hacer con los responsables de esa tragedia? El dilema se resolvio deteniendo a los dirigentes del regimen (Speer, Hess, GC6ring, Von Ribbentrop...) como criminales de guerra y encerrandoles en campos improvisados, a la espera de un juicio sin precedentes. En esos campos, los aliados, necesitados de cargos de los que acusarles ante un tribunal internacional, tuvieron una oportunidad unica: conseguir que el enemigo les contara, desde su...

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

Coordinado por Umberto Eco, Castillos, mercaderes, poetas, el tercer tomo de La Edad Media, ofrece un compendio de algunos de los asuntos más relevantes en Europa durante los siglos XIII Y XIV en campos como la historia, la filosofía, las letras, la música, las artes visuales y las ciencias, sin dejar de lado el marco político, económico y social. La obra se encuentra dividida en seis secciones principales y hace un recorrido histórico exhaustivo por lo que usualmente es considerado el final de la Edad Media.

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