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It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

Told through personal interviews, this biographical study of Freddie Mercury and his role in the rock band Queen tells the story of three academics and an art student who decided to go against the rigid rules of the music industry and create their own movement. Speaking openly on all aspects of the band—from their rough start, the many times that they were about to break up, problems with the press, the stresses of being on tour, and internal disputes—Mercury gives a bittersweet and sometimes contradictory portrait of a rock icon from the 1970s. Dicho a través de entrevistas personales,...

La historia de cómo García Márquez se convirtió en uno de los escritores más importantes de la historia.

Las doctoras británicas Flora Murray y Louisa Garrett Anderson lo dejaron todo cuando estalló la primera guerra mundial, incluyendo su lucha activa por el derecho al voto de la mujer, para trasladarse a Francia donde crearon dos pequeños hospitales militares. A pesar de que en su país las mujeres no podían atender a hombres, sus capacidades médicas y organizativas resultaron ser tan impresionantes que, en 1915, el Ministerio de la Guerra les pidió que regresaran a Londres y pusieran en marcha un nuevo hospital militar en un enorme y antiguo hospicio abandonado en la calle Endell de...