Las calles de Madrid

Vinieron de todos los continentes a luchar en una guerra lejana para ellos. Miles de hombres y mujeres que dejaron sus familias y sus países para venir a España a combatir junto al ejército republicano e intentar frenar el avance del fascismo en Europa. Rémi Skoutelsky, historiador especializado en la materia, ofrece un relato indispensable para conocer todos los detalles sobre la actuación de los brigadistas que protagonizaron uno de los episodios clave en la historia de nuestro país.

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La estancia de Alexander von Humboldt en territorios hispanoamericanos, entre 1799 y 1805, tuvo diversas repercusiones de caracter cientifico. A partir de que supo allegarse a todo tipo de informacion, tanto del poder como de los hombres de cultura de entonces, logro elaborar interpretaciones y exposiciones panoramicas, rigurosas y sistematicas de fenomenos y acontecimientos de estos territorios. Con ello Humboldt continuo su tarea de reintegrar America al mundo occidental.

Seventy years after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, disillusioned soldiers horrified by the actual conditions in which they found themselves, who deserted from either side of the conflict, and who were later tracked down and punished by Franco's government, share their eyewitness accounts of events and their motives for deserting.