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La bibliografía reciente sobre la historia de la Guerra Civil española está integrada, sobre todo, por obras especializadas, destinadas a los investigadores. Faltan hoy síntesis accesibles que puedan cumplir la función que en su tiempo desempeñaron libros como los de Gabriel Jackson o Hugh Thomas, aproximando al lector medio el estado actual de los conocimientos, lo cual resulta tanto más urgente tras unas décadas en que la investigación ha aportado nuevas certezas y ha desvanecido viejos mitos.

In this magisterial history, Raymond Ibrahim chronicles the long and brutal conflict between Islam and the West through the eyes and lives of Christendom’s original commando forces: the knights of the Temple and Hospital. These warrior monks, whose unprecedented fusion of piety and militancy remains unmatched to this day, played a pivotal—though overlooked if not suppressed—role in defending Christian civilization against the onslaught of Islamic forces during the Crusades and beyond.

Fue la guerra que enfrentó a los miembros y partidarios de dos casas de alcurnia (la Casa de Lancaster y la Casa de York entre 1455 y 1485) por hacerse del trono de Inglaterra. El nombre de este enfrentamiento, que partió en dos a la nación, fue dado en alusión a los emblemas de ambas casas, la rosa blanca de York y la roja de Lancaster.

Since John Hersey's Hiroshima, very few books have examined the meaning and impact of World War II through the eyes of Japanese men and women who survived that conflict. Tattered Kimonos in Japan does just that: It is an intimate journey into contemporary Japan from the perspective of the generation of Japanese soldiers and civilians who survived World War II, by a writer whose American father and Japanese father-in-law fought on opposite sides of the conflict.

The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Across the world, existing conflicts became connected, entangling nations in a vast web of violence. It was fought on land, sea, and air, touching every inhabited continent. Over 55 million people died, some of them combatants, some civilians caught up in the violence, and some murdered by their own governments.

19th century Europe produced some of the greatest soldiers, statesmen, scientists, artists, and thinkers of any period in recorded history. And by the middle of that century nationalism had emerged triumphant from Ireland to Greece, and many new nations, including Germany and Italy, had appeared. But nationalism was accompanied by a chauvinistic impulse toward militarism.

For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China two full years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.

The United States has no shortage of famous military units, from the Civil War's Iron Brigade to the 101st Airborne, but one would be hard pressed to find one that had to go through as many hardships off the field as the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American fighter pilots who overcame Jim Crow at home and official segregation in the military to serve their country in the final years of World War II.

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.

April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.

Il 480 a.C. è il momento decisivo delle guerre persiane. Serse decide di regolare i conti con le poleis greche. Al passo delle Termopili l'esercito greco sotto il comando dello spartano Leonida dà una straordinaria prova di coraggio che passerà alla storia. La flotta greca si rifugia a Salamina, imbottigliandosi in uno stretto golfo e lì, in quelle strette acque, la battaglia navale si trasforma in una battaglia terrestre combattuta sull'immensa, instabile piattaforma costituita dalle navi affiancate o incastrate le une nelle altre.

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology, and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy.

Donald Macintyre’s U-Boat Killer is a unique account of the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of a British destroyer captain who fought through this brutal campaign. Few other books transport the listener to the deck of a convoy escort in the cold, stormy seas of the Atlantic Ocean and bring to life the terrifying conflict between the Royal Navy and the U-boats.

Winston Churchill, der Mann mit der ewigen Zigarre und dem Victory-V, ist der wohl bekannteste Unbekannte unserer Geschichte. Ohne ihn hätte Deutschland nicht vom Nationalsozialismus befreit werden können. Sein aufregendes Leben mit allen Licht- und Schattenseiten gilt es aber noch zu entdecken. Gestützt auf neue Archivfunde, erzählt Dietmar Pieper, wie stark Churchills Werdegang über Jahrzehnte von seinem Verhältnis zu Deutschland geprägt war – schon sein Aufstieg zum Marineminister vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg war eine Reaktion auf die Kanonenbootpolitik des Kaiserreichs unter Wilhelm II.

The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II.

Emerging from France's catastrophic 1940 defeat like a bedraggled and rather sinister phoenix, the French State – better known to history as Vichy France or the Vichy Regime after its spa-town capital, stands in history as a unique and bizarre creation of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler's European conquests. A patchwork of paradoxes and contradictions, the Vichy Regime maintained a quasi-independent French nation for some time after the Third Reich invasion.

Danger prowled under both the cold gray waters of the North Sea and the shimmering blue waves of the tropical Atlantic during World War II as Adolf Hitler's Third Reich attempted to strangle Allied shipping lanes with U-boat attacks. German and British submarines combed the vast oceanic battlefield for prey, while scientists developed new technologies and countermeasures.

He had to sit in a segregated rail car on the journey to army basic training in Mississippi in 1943. But two years later, the 20-year-old African American from New York was at the controls of a P-51, prowling for Luftwaffe aircraft at 5,000 feet over the Austrian countryside. This is the remarkable true story of Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. Award-winning aviation writer Philip Handleman re-creates the harrowing action and heart-pounding drama of Stewart's combat missions....

Volume Two begins with the accession of the Roman Emperor Valens in the year 364, a period which heralded vast movements of barbarian tribes from the north and east. The Huns move from the confines of Mongolia westward into Europe, pushing the German tribes in terror before them, who in turn move across the Rhine and Danube into Roman territory. The names of Goths, Franks, Lombards and Vandals will become part of the daily vocabulary. Gibbon describes in matchless style the dramatic events as the Western Roman Empire disintegrates under the pressure of Germanic invasion and internal corruption.

Ficción dramática que ilustra la historia secreta de las negociaciones que llevaron a la firma de Pacto Ribbentrop Mólotov que alteró radicalmente el equilibrio de fuerzas en Europa, desencadenó la II Guerra Mundial, implicó el reparto de países en Europa Central y finalmente, la entrega de Stalin a Alemania de los refugiados comunistas alemanes que habían buscado asilo político en la URRS.