Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
"Cafés con el diablo describe algunos abismos del mal entre los que ha transcurrido y aún transcurre nuestra existencia, a los que sólo nos asomamos de forma ocasional y somera en reportajes de televisión y artículos de prensa, cuya brevedad –y, últimamente– escasez no nos permite mantenernos conscientes de su gravedad ni, por tanto, combatirlos.
El Comando Conjunto fue un organismo represivo de la dictadura chilena del que nada se sabía hasta que uno de sus agentes –Andrés Valenzuela Morales, alias Papudo– desertó y, arriesgando la vida, entregó su testimonio.
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.
On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company (1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division), entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "e;Pinkville"e; because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration.
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology.
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths-and, yet, it was only the latest in a long series of assaults endured by Palestinians isolated in Gaza.
Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave.
Eine packende neue Geschichte Russlands – über 500 Jahre Herrschaft und Macht im Kreml, von Iwan dem Schrecklichen bis Wladimir PutinDer Kreml ist das imposante Symbol der russischen Nation.
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS.
A Finalist for the 2024 Cundill History PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeA Best Book of the Year in The Economist, Prospect, The Telegraph, TLS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Foreign Affairs'Magisterial' - Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Monumental' - Rana Mitter, Times Literary SupplementA landmark history of the postwar trials of Japan's leaders as war criminals, and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction'A devastating indictment' SUNDAY TIMES'An important book, a superb piece of reporting' OBSERVER'With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making' PHILIP GOUREVITCHWhy do leaders who vow 'never again' repeatedly fail to prevent genocide?
El ingreso al sistema escolar de la poblacion victima del conflicto armado en Colombia, en especial de desmovilizados y desvinculados, supone distintas transiciones, retos y resistencias, relacionadas con la integracion al aula, los procesos de aprendizaje, la reconstruccion de los referentes de la identidad personal y colectiva, el establecimiento de interacciones con sus grupos de pares, docentes y figuras directivas, entre otros.
'In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too' KATHERINE STANSFIELDParis, 1940.
El presente libro constituye un hito en la historia del trabajo mancomunado de los investigadores de las Facultades de Derecho de las Universidades de Zaragoza (España) y EAFIT (Colombia) y un paso importante en el esfuerzo común por ahondar en el análisis del conflicto armado que se vive en Colombia, las violaciones de los derechos humanos y el diseño de mecanismos de protección internacional, todo ello con el compromiso de profundizar en la línea de investigación y de aportar un conocimiento que llegue a los distintos a los distintos espacios académicos, instituciones y organizaciones relacionadas con la defensa de los derechos humanos y con la búsqueda de una negociación.
Esta obra no se orienta a analizar el estado del conflicto armado colombiano, sino que parte de la clara conciencia de la realidad nacional en la que la poblacion civil ha quedado cautiva en medio del conflicto y del fuego cruzado entre las partes, sometida al albur de los poderes ilegales que disputan con el poder estatal la organizacion de la vida cotidiana de la gente en muchas regiones del pais.
Esta obra no se orienta a analizar el estado del conflicto armado colombiano, sino que parte de la clara conciencia de la realidad nacional en la que la población civil ha quedado cautiva en medio del conflicto y del fuego cruzado entre las partes, sometida al albur de los poderes ilegales que disputan con el poder estatal la organización de la vida cotidiana de la gente en muchas regiones del país.
A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official.
Vivimos tiempos inciertos y turbulentos en los que la guerra no se libra unicamente en trincheras o en campos de batalla sino en los escenarios mas variados.
In the aftermath of terrorist attacks by ISIS (ISIL or Daesh) in Paris, Beirut and on the Russian jet over the Sinai Peninsula, the US and much of the world is focused on crushing the Islamic State.
The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg the greatest trial in history seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings.
The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg – ‘the greatest trial in history’ – seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings.