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This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

La crisis y caída de la Monarquía española en el período 1923-1931 introdujo un rápido y virulento proceso de radicalización en el ámbito de la derecha, que se tradujo en una ruptura más o menos abierta con la tradición liberal del conservadurismo y luego en la adopción de actitudes manifiestamente hostiles al reformismo republicano. Entre los que asumieron posiciones más radicales se encontraba el Partido Nacionalista Español. Su fundador, el médico valenciano José María Albiñaña, era un antiguo liberal que a partir de 1929 adoptó un discurso político propio de la extrema...

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself. This final part of the series documents the Red Army's push through Germany to Berlin, which eventually culminated in the surrender of the German forces to the Allies in 1945. It also offers a detailed breakdown of all the armed forces that conducted the offensive campaigns on the Eastern Front, including the army, air force, paratroopers, navy and NKVD troops. It also...

On the assassination of three Salvadoran representatives to the Parlamento Centroamericano, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and José Ramón González, in Guatemala on Feb. 19, 2007, as well as the crimes that followed it and the associated investigations.