Orientalia

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Esta es, sin duda, la mejor biografía de Winston Churchill que se haya publicado. Andrew Roberts, considerado como el mejor historiador militar británico, ha podido utilizar para su trabajo una gran cantidad de documentos que ningún biógrafo había podido consultar con anterioridad, incluídos los diarios privados del rey Jorge VI, que se reunía regularmente con Churchill durante la guerra. La riqueza de la documentación que maneja permite a Roberts ahondar en la realidad humana del personaje, siguiendo su vida desde su infancia y la conflictiva relación con su padre hasta su declive,...

Mediante una impactante e imparcial panorámica de la historia rusa desde el siglo ix, Paul Bushkovitch nos ofrece un profundo y objetivo análisis de la evolución política de una de las mayores potencias mundiales, así como los cambios habidos en su literatura, arte y ciencia. Dejando de lado a héroes y villanos para centrarse en lo que hoy son hechos, y no especulaciones, el autor hace un relato vívido, a veces crudo, que permite comprender el radical giro experimentado por este gigante como consecuencia de la caída de la Unión Soviética en 1991. De este modo, los precedentes de la...