Atlas ilustrado de las grandes batallas de la Guerra Civil Española

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

"Este libro no aspira a ser una obra historiográfica propiamente dicha. José M. Muriá está convencido de que se trata de una verdadera epopeya, con un sentido de obligación al escribirla y recordar lo que hicieron los mexicanos referidos a lo largo de las páginas, a favor de la democracia y los derechos humanos en la península ibérica y en Francia, durante aquellos años en que la hegemonía del fascismo parecía ser incontenible en Europa, realidad que en la actualidad pocos mexicanos conocen y los libros de historia general no cuentan. Este libro es entonces una manera muy...

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“Una original novela histórica que afronta con maestría, lingüística y estilística, las intrincadas vicisitudes de la Corte francesa. Con extrema credibilidad cobran vida las dinámicas de palacio sin que nada sea omitido u otorgado a la casualidad. Una escritura coherente y adaptada al contexto de la narración acompaña al lector, de manera apasionante y nunca aburrida, gracias al dinamismo y al ritmo apremiante conferidos por los diálogos, en un placentero recorrido de experiencias. Intrigas, juegos de poder, mentiras, revelaciones, envidias, pasión e inteligencia son la flor del...