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El pasado debería ser igual para todos, pero no lo es. Existe la tendencia cada vez más habitual y preocupante de adaptar la historia a las necesidades del presente. En esta obra, Paolo Mieli, uno de los intelectuales más destacados e inconformistas de Italia, denuncia la recurrente manipulación de los acontecimientos históricos que a menudo se comete por intereses políticos. A través de numerosos ejemplos que constatan la tergiversación y la simplificación de los hechos del pasado, Mieli desmonta mitos y versiones oficiales, al tiempo que nos advierte del peligro de instaurar estas...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Silent convoys that sailed under the cover of the night, risky landing operations, naval battles in the open sea, José Luis Caballero covers these facts and much more in his narrative analysis. The naval battles, recreated with great mastery and precision, shows us the cruelty and epic ways of fighting during World War II. Convoyes silenciosos que navegaban al amparo de la noche, arriesgadas operaciones de desembarco, combates navales a mar abierto, acorazados capaces de destruir el enemigo con sus cañones de largo alcance, torpedos humanos, portaviones atentos a la aparición de kamikazes. ...