Historia de Inglaterra...

Los objetos realizados para el placer de reyes, nobles, comerciantes e incluso de la gente corriente ofrecen fascinantes testimonios de las modas y pasatiempos de la vida medieval. El amor cortés, la heráldica, los banquetes, la caza y la agricultura proporcionaron buenos temas decorativos. Los cacharros diseñados para comer o beber a menudo estaban decorados con inscripciones, o bien modelados en forma de rostro humano o de caballero. Las bestias del bosque, representadas en el famoso cuerno de Savernake, contrastan con las escenas y símbolos de amor que aparecen tanto en arquetas...

John H. Morrow, Jr., es profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Georgia. Se ha especializado en la historia social y militar europea del siglo xx y es autor, entre otras obras, de Building German Air Power, 1909-1914 (1976), German Air Power in World War I (1982) y The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 (1993), así como editor de A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (1996).

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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.