La historia como hazaña de la libertad

Historias para disfrutar con la historia es una colección de relatos novelados sobre episodios clave de nuestro pasado: descubrimientos, batallas, inventos, ideas, hazañas individuales y gestas colectivas que consiguieron torcer el brazo de la historia y cambiar el rumbo de los acontecimientos. En cada libro encontrarás cinco episodios, uno por período histórico. ˜ EN ESTE SEGUNDO VOLUMEN Prehistoria. El día en que estuvimos al borde de la extinción Edad Antigua. La herramienta que convirtió la palabra en eterna Edad Media. El martillo que frenó al islam Edad Moderna. De cómo un...

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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...

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...