Series Illuminati

Un gran relato que nos descubre la apasionante historia de las civilizaciones que nos precedieron. De Europa a Oriente Medio hasta las costas de China, la autora de este ambicioso volumen nos ofrece una mirada única a las vidas de los pueblos que han protagonizado la aventura de la humanidad. Así, más que un libro de historia, el lector tiene en sus manos una exquisita narración de los albores del ser humano. Acompañado de varios mapas que proporcionan al lector un claro sentido de la localización de los acontecimientos, así como de tablas cronológicas que permiten adquirir una...

Breve historia de Vietnam. En la Guerra de Vietnam se luchó como en cualquier otra guerra pero terminó con ambas partes creyendo que habían vencido. Eso sí, no arrancó con una declaración de guerra como tal. La gran cantidad de luchas por el poder a lo largo de su historia es abrumadora. Las batallas fueron cortas e intensas y se desarrollaron en las junglas y arrozales. Los métodos guerrilleros tuvieron gran peso en esta guerra.

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

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