Conchas de fuego y de sangre

Drug trafficking goes beyond organized crime. It is a way of life that has its own idols and even its own saints. Mexico's acclaimed journalist Jorge Fernandez Menendez unmasks the unavoidable presence of drug trafficking, its resources and organization, smuggling and weaponry, and its overall lack of control along the Mexican border. These elements, combined, constitute the alternate power to the State: The Other Authority.

A detailed study of one of the greatest tank battles since World War II, as some 950 Egyptian tanks confronted about 800 tanks of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Sinai Peninsula. This momentous clash came to be known as the Six-Day War, and was a critical laboratory for two competing and contrasting systems of armored warfare. The Six-Day War in 1967 was a lightning Israeli campaign that changed the face of the Middle East. Israel's armored brigades, despite being heavily outnumbered on paper by Arab AFVs, managed to dominate the Arab forces tactically and technologically, through...

En este macizo y corajudo estudio histórico, sólidamente basado en abundante documentación de primera fuente y testimonios de muchos testigos, recogida con esmero y dedicación en Iquique, Lima y un sinnúmero de pueblos de la Pampa, el conocido sociólogo e historiador tarapaqueño Sergio González, sin un ánimo de reabrir viejas heridas, se adentra en un episodio sórdido y subterráneo, desconocido para la mayoría de los chilenos. El autor analiza, con oficio y rigor académico, el surgimiento, apogeo y declinación de las Ligas Patrióticas que practicaron lo que hoy día podríamos...

Excerpt from Anales del Reinado de Da. Isabel II, Vol. 5: Obra Postuma de Don Javier de Burgos Esta obra es propiedad de los herederos del autor, los que perseguirán ante la ley al que la reímprí - ma á cuyo_ ¡in llevarán todos los ejemplares la siguiente fá brica ¡mmm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst...