Historia, ciencia social

Peter Jones, que enseñó cultura clásica en Cambridge y enla Universidadde Newcastle, ha escrito algo así como una historia amena de Roma, desde su fundación hasta las invasiones bárbaras, en una sucesión de textos breves, a modo de viñetas, que nos hablan de los grandes personajes y de los acontecimientos fundamentales de la historia de la ciudad y del imperio, pero también de circunstancias anecdóticas que se refieren a unos y otros –los gansos del Capitolio, los elefantes de Aníbal, la riqueza de Craso, la construcción del Coliseo...- o de cuestiones que nos aproximan a la...

La historia de Wilheim Canaris, el jefe del espionaje de Hitler, ahorcado por los nazis en abril de 1945 –no una vez, sino dos, con el objeto de prolongar su agonía-, encierra un misterio que Richard Bassett ha procurado descifrar, usando documentos y testimonios hasta hoy inéditos, para aclarar la conducta del hombre que, desde dentro mismo del régimen nazi, trató, según sus propias palabras, de oponerse “a la locura de Hitler, que conducía a Alemania a la destrucción”. Además de las nuevas perspectivas que nos ofrece acerca de la segunda guerra mundial, el libro resulta...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...