Armas Para La República: La Aventura del Mar Cantábrico

En un tiempo en el que la memoria histórica reclama un lugar parecía obligado aprovechar el centenario de aquel escándalo para reivindicar la inocencia de su protagonista. El 13 de octubre de 1909, hace ahora exactamente cien años, moría fusilado en el castillo de Montjuïc el pedagogo, anarquista y librepensador catalán Francisco Ferrer i Guardia, condenado a la última pena en virtud de una polémica sentencia que lo consideró «autor y máximo responsable» de los sucesos revolucionarios conocidos históricamente como la Semana Trágica. Con la ejecución de Ferrer i Guardia la...

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Esta es la historia del mayor imperio que el mundo ha conocido. Con un estilo narrativo trepidante y un minucioso rigor historiográfico, Simon Baker relata el ascenso y caída de la que fue la primera superpotencia mundial: una maquinaria política, militar y cultural sin parangón.