Discurso de mi vida

La Trilogía de la Liberación es la crónica definitiva sobre la liberación de Europa en la segunda guerra mundial. Un ejército al amanecer. La guerra en el norte de África, 1942-1943 -ganadora del premio Pulitzer- , El día de la batalla. La guerra en Sicilia y en Italia, 1943-1944 y Los cañones del atardecer. La guerra en Europa, 1944-1945 describen las arduas batallas que marcaron la victoria de los Aliados en la segunda guerra mundial. Rick Atkinson narra con exquisito detalle estas batallas y da vida a un importante elenco de personajes.

Con la llegada al Nuevo Mundo, los cronistas espa oles tuvieron la funci n de relatar a Europa c mo era el territorio reci n descubierto. Algunos se dedicaron a describir poblaciones ind genas y su cultura. Otros, como Gonzalo Fern ndez de Oviedo, registraron las especies de animales y plantas aut ctonas, de cuya vida y obra se comenta en este libro.

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

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