El fabricante de peinetas

En Stalingrado se libró la batalla más decisiva de la segunda guerra mundial. Su historia ha sido contada muchas veces, pero nunca como en este libro de Antony Beevor, que ha sido elogiado por especialistas como Orlando Figes y Robert Conquest, y que se ha convertido en un best seller internacional. Beevor ha llevado a cabo una investigación minuciosa en los archivos rusos y alemanes, sacando de ellos datos desconocidos, y ha interrogado a supervivientes de los dos bandos para reconstruir la experiencia vivida de una inmensa tragedia. Ello le ha permitido construir un relato del que Dirk...

Demóstenes (384-322 a.C.) es un autor imprescindible de la literatura clásica. Considerado una de las cimas de la oratoria de todos los tiempos, y de dilatada influencia posterior, sus vehementes discursos políticos a la Asamblea ateniense representan el último esfuerzo de Grecia por salvaguardar sus valores democráticos frente a la amenaza que suponía el rey Filipo de Macedonia y su hijo, Alejandro Magno.

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