El imperio de papel de Juan Díez de la Calle

CUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro's takeover of the island on January 1, 1959. Their political organization, the Brigada de Accion Popular manages to escape Castro's vindictive militias, and form an insurgent government inside Cuban territory; from there on the novel embarks on a fast-paced, entertaining and suspenseful narrative. As the author says: "it could have made the difference". Readers, Cuban or not will enjoy this novel's creativity, action and profound...

Hitler y Chamberlain en Munich en 1938; Roosevelt, Churchill y Stalin en Yalta en 1945; Kennedy y Jruschov en Viena en 1961; Nixon y Bréznev en Moscú en 1972; Carter, Sadat y Begin en Camp David en 1978; Gorvachov y Reagan en Ginebra en 1985. Seis cumbres políticas que modelaron el siglo XX, desde el estallido de la segunda guerra mundial hasta el final de la guerra fría, pasando por la repartición de Europa en la posguerra, la extrema tensión nuclear entre las superpotencias que tuvo su punto álgido en la crisis de los misiles de Cuba, y los intentos de apaciguar el polvorín de...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

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