Juana de Arco

Recuerdos de una carrera sin parangón que recoge los acontecimientos más importantes del último medio siglo. Seymour M. Hersh ha visto su firma en portada en prácticamente todos los grandes periódicos del mundo libre, ha recibido un abrumador número de reconocimientos y ha sido objeto de no pocas controversias. La suya es una historia de independencia a ultranza. Enfrentado tanto a presiones empresariales como a los potentes brazos del poder gubernamental, Hersh se ha mostrado infatigable en su búsqueda de la verdad y en su creencia de que hay que desafiar el relato oficial, incluso...

Cecilia, a quien la vida sonreía, la entregó por su fe. En Roma, capital del Imperio, vivió Cecilia, noble dama cristiana y amante de la música. Imperaba Marco Aurelio, filósofo estoico que odiaba el cristianismo, y lo perseguía hasta el punto de considerar reo de muerte a todo aquel que lo profesara. Cecilia murió en defensa de su fe, junto con otros muchos mártires.

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

Instead of Forgetting rebuilds the intertwined memory of three families, the Ynsa's, the Pine's and the Bilbao's between 1872 and 1942. These years are not at random, the first one marks the start of the third Spanish Carlist War, after that, the establishment of the First Spanish Republic, and the second one, the strengthening of the Franco regime. With the backdrop of the Restoration, the monarchy of Alfonso the XIII, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Republic and the civil war, the reader follows little and great stories of characters, ancestors of the authors, that reflect a unique ...