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La Segunda Guerra Mundial encierra todavía muchos secretos. Millones de documentos esperan todavía a ser desclasificados, pero poco a poco vamos conociendo historias impactantes y sorprendentes que se han mantenido ocultas durante décadas. En este libro, el lector podrá conocer los planes aliados para secuestrar a Hitler, asesinar científicos enemigos o atacar las ciudades alemanas con bombas bacteriológicas. También descubrirá los esfuerzos realizados para esconder de la luz pública accidentes y tragedias que se saldaron con centenares de muertos, así como el turbio pasado de colaboración con el régimen nazi de marcas comerciales que hoy gozan de un gran prestigio. Un velo de silencio cayó también sobre la vida personal de los grandes protagonistas de la contienda; la imagen virtuosa de Roosevelt, Eisenhower o Patton quedó salvaguardada durante años al encubrir sus relaciones extramatrimoniales. Pero en otros casos menos frívolos, como las muertes de Mussolini o Himmler, el misterio sobre las extrañas circunstancias en que se produjeron- y que siguen archivadas bajo el sello de alto secreto- continúan alimentando todo tipo de especulaciones...
Uno de los libros de referencia de historia militar en la última década en nuestro país. Un libro repleto de aquellos sorprendentes detalles, de lo cotidiano del conflicto, que también fueron decisivos para definir el cambio de rumbo de la Historia. Jesús Hernández ha investigado un poco más allá de estrategias y versiones oficiales para crear este anecdotario, y arrancar así una sonrisa o alguna que otra cara de asombro. El libro aporta, además del centenar de anécdotas, otro capítulo destinado a curiosidades y un espacio destinado a pequeños récords, como la bomba más pesada o el piloto más condecorado
This study explores the evolving role of women soldiers in Mexico—as both fighters and cultural symbols—from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors—heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas—indicate their ambivalent position within Mexican society. In this original study, Elizabeth Salas challenges many traditional stereotypes, shedding new light on the significance of these women. Drawing on military archival data, anthropological studies, and oral history interviews, Salas first explores the real roles played by Mexican women in armed conflicts. She finds that most of the functions performed by women easily equate to those performed by revolutionaries and male soldiers in the quartermaster corps and regular ranks. She then turns her attention to the soldadera as a continuing symbol, examining the image of the soldadera in literature, corridos, art, music, and film. Salas finds that the fundamental realities of war link all Mexican women, regardless of time period, social class, or nom de guerre.
Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions. Stanley Payne, a leading historian of modern Spain, explores the full range of Franco’s relationship with Hitler, from 1936 to the fall of the Reich in 1945. But as Payne brilliantly shows, relations between these two dictators were not only a matter of realpolitik. These two titanic egos engaged in an extraordinary tragicomic drama often verging on the dark absurdity of a Beckett or Ionesco play. Whereas Payne investigates the evolving relationship of the two regimes up to the conclusion of World War II, his principal concern is the enigma of Spain’s unique position during the war, as a semi-fascist country struggling to maintain a tortured neutrality. Why Spain did not enter the war as a German ally, joining with Hitler to seize Gibraltar and close the Mediterranean to the British navy, is at the center of Payne’s narrative. Franco’s only personal meeting with Hitler, in 1940 to discuss precisely this, is recounted here in groundbreaking detail that also sheds significant new light on the Spanish government’s vacillating policy toward Jewish refugees, on the Holocaust, and on Spain’s German connection throughout the duration of the war.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The “gripping story” of a Nazi blockade, a Russian composer, and a ragtag band of musicians who fought to keep up a besieged city’s morale (The New York Times Book Review). For 872 days during World War II, the German Army encircled the city of Leningrad—modern-day St. Petersburg—in a military operation that would cripple the former capital and major Soviet industrial center. Palaces were looted and destroyed. Schools and hospitals were bombarded. Famine raged and millions died, soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Against the backdrop of this catastrophe, historian Brian Moynahan tells the story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Seventh Symphony was first performed during the siege and became a symbol of defiance in the face of fascist brutality. Titled “Leningrad” in honor of the city and its people, the work premiered on August 9, 1942—with musicians scrounged from frontline units and military bands, because only twenty of the orchestra’s hundred members had survived. With this compelling human story of art and culture surviving amid chaos and violence, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony “brings new depth and drama to a key historical moment” (Booklist, starred review), in “a narrative that is by turns painful, poignant and inspiring” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “He reaches into the guts of the city to extract some humanity from the blood and darkness, and at its best Leningrad captures the heartbreak, agony and small salvations in both death and survival . . . Moynahan’s descriptions of the battlefield, which also draw from the diaries of the cold, lice-ridden, hungry combatants, are haunting.” —The Washington Post
El conflicto más salvaje de la historia de la humanidad está, no obstante, plagado de historias y anécdotas tremendamente sorprendentes y llenas de humanidad. La Segunda Guerra Mundial es uno de los periodos históricos más estudiados en el pasado S. XX y en este siglo, no obstante, aún no hemos logrado responder a la infinidad de preguntas que sigue suscitando. Frente a la inmensidad de libros que tratan pormenorizadamente los detalles más importantes y conocidos de la guerra, Historias asombrosas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial nos presenta otra visión del conflicto armado más terrible de la historia humana. Un repaso por las zonas más oscuras del conflicto que, además de entretenido, puede ser revelador e instructivo para todos aquellos interesados este episodio de la historia. Jesús Hernández estructura el libro temáticamente, y presenta temas tan importantes como las relaciones entre la guerra y la cultura, la presencia de animales condecorados en ambos bandos o las curiosidades de la guerra en el aire, en el mar y en las trincheras. Facilita así la asimilación de los datos y aglutina las anécdotas para que el lector pueda relacionar las curiosidades de un bando con las del contrario. Descubriremos así datos tan curiosos como la Venus de Milo de escayola con la que los franceses engañaron a los expertos alemanes, o la historia de Mary, una paloma que fue condecorada por vencer a los halcones nazis, o el curioso relato del coche blindado de Roosevelt que procedía del mismísimo Al Capone. Un libro ameno y didáctico que ayudará a hacernos comprender que la Segunda Guerra Mundial es una fuente inagotable de pequeñas historias humanas. Razones para comprar la obra: - Es una obra accesible para cualquier tipo de lector independientemente de su conocimiento de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. - Aporta una visión nueva un tema tan tratado en el siglo pasado y en los inicios de este. - El autor nos relata las curiosas anécdotas en un estilo ligero que acerca el tema a cualquier lector y ayuda a comprender la materia. - Muchas de las historias están basadas en datos derivados de las más recientes investigaciones sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una obra tremendamente entretenida que muestra, sin embargo, los hechos históricos con todo el rigor y la precisión que un tema como éste reclaman. Un rayo de luz que aclara la parte más humana de este conflicto en el que la locura llegó a cotas inauditas hasta entonces. Para comenzar a leer la obra: www.book2look.es/book/9788497633529
While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through 48 task sheets, which show how to present the material to students. Published in English.
A heartfelt and inspiring personal account of a woman raised as a Lubavitcher Hasid who leaves that world without leaving the family that remains within it. Even as a child, Chaya Deitsch felt that she didn’t belong in the Hasidic world into which she’d been born. She spent her teenage years outwardly conforming to but secretly rebelling against the rules that tell you what and when to eat, how to dress, whom you can befriend, and what you must believe. Loving her parents, grandparents, and extended family, Chaya struggled to fit in but instead felt angry, stifled, and frustrated. Upon receiving permission from her bewildered but supportive parents to attend Barnard College, she discovered a wider world in which she could establish an independent identity and fulfill her dream of an unconfined life that would be filled with the secular knowledge and culture that were largely foreign to her friends and relatives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As she gradually shed the physical and spiritual trappings of Hasidic life, Chaya found herself torn between her desire to be honest with her parents about who she now was and her need to maintain a loving relationship with the family that she still very much wanted to be part of. Eventually, Chaya and her parents came to an understanding that was based on unqualified love and a hard-won but fragile form of acceptance. With honesty, sensitivity, and intelligence, Chaya Deitsch movingly shows us that lives lived differently do not have to be lives lived apart.
Ludger Mees offers the first comprehensive study of one of Europe's most protracted ethnic conflicts. He carefully analyzes both the historical roots of the conflict and its later growing violent dimension. Special attention is paid to the framing of a new opportunity structure during the 1990s, which facilitated the first serious, but ultimately frustrated, attempt to broker a settlement. In the light of different theoretical and comparative approaches, the reasons for the dramatic return of terrorism and the possibilities of a more successful conflict de-escalation in the near future are discussed.