Historia de Francia

«Este libro destapa las vergüenzas de Estados Unidos en los últimos cien años».Bill Maher Oliver Stone, ganador de un Óscar de la Academia, y el historiador Peter Kuznick nos desvelan la otra cara de la historia de Estados Unidosanalizando los grandes acontecimientos que desde la Guerra de Secesión y hasta la actualidad han marcado el «siglo americano» a través de un prisma crítico y constructivo. El resultado es un libro que cuestiona el discurso oficial transmitido dentro y fuera de las fronteras de la superpotencia —centrándose en los errores porque los grandes aciertos ya...

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...

Este testimonio de Yasuaki Yamashita, sobreviviente de la bomba atómica lanzada en 1945 en la ciudad de Nagasaki, es una gran muestra del espíritu de supervivencia humano en situaciones críticas. Y deja una clara sensación de que en la guerra el drama no termina en el campo de batalla, sino que sus consecuencias persiguen a la humanidad, aún en la reconstrucción.

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