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Durante el bombardeo aliado de Alemania, Hitler estaba más preocupado por la destrucción de los tesoros culturales que por la de los hogares de los alemanes. Notablemente, sus propagandistas difundieron este hecho convencidos de que revelaría no su crueldad, sino su sensibilidad: la catástrofe no consiguió aniquilar su espíritu de artista. Es imposible comprender esta forma de pensar sin entender lo que Wolf Lepenies llama «La seducción de la cultura en la historia alemana». En este fascinante y excepcional libro se analiza la historia de una polémica costumbre alemana: la de...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

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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.