Travesía de la Esperanza

Cesáreo Fernández Duro (Zamora, 1830-Madrid, 1908), marino de profesión, fue, en realidad, un excelente erudito y escritor en un siglo, el XIX, riquísimo en grandes eruditos escritores. En su amplia labor destacan, sobre todo, los libros dedicados a la historia naval, desde su inicial Naufragios de la Armada española (1867) hasta su completísima y aún no superada Historia de la Armada española, nueve volúmenes escritos entre 1895 y 1903, pasando por los curiosísimos volúmenes de Disquisiciones náuticas (1880) o sus ensayos sobre Cervantes marino (1865), Colón y Pinzón (1883), La ...

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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,...

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