Conferencias del mes: año 2013

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself. This final part of the series documents the Red Army's push through Germany to Berlin, which eventually culminated in the surrender of the German forces to the Allies in 1945. It also offers a detailed breakdown of all the armed forces that conducted the offensive campaigns on the Eastern Front, including the army, air force, paratroopers, navy and NKVD troops. It also...

Les célébrations du bicentenaire de la guerre d'Indépendance ont eu un écho considérable en Espagne et ont suscité une révision profonde de la lecture du long conflit qui embrasa la Péninsule de 1808 à 1814. Cette guerre apparaît désormais dans toute sa complexité : guerre patriotique de résistance à l'occupant français, mais aussi guerre civile et révolution. La mémoire et les mythes qu'elle a suscités ont joué un rôle de tout premier plan dans la construction de la nation espagnole par le libéralisme. Ce dernier apparaît désormais comme fondamentalement pluriel et...

Who has not heard of Cuba? Its beaches, music, food, the beautiful women... and even Fidel Castro? But how many of you know about the misery and repression in which the people of Cuba live? How far does the violation of the civil rights of the people of Cuba go? It's hard to put so many bad things together in a small book. I'll show you some of the most relevant and the simplest things you never think about because you always had it when you need it and when you want it.

En 1846 el joven abogado Antonio García Reyes publicó su Memoria sobre la Primera Escuadra Nacional, un libro breve a la vez que abarcador, ya que va más allá de su título. En la práctica cubre, de manera sintética a la vez que completa, las Campañas Navales de la Gue-rra de Independencia de Chile desde los años de la Patria Vieja hasta que el almirante Lord Thomas Cochrane termina su período al servicio de Chile. En su época y años posteriores esta obra fue muy bien acogida, convirtiendo a su autor, un destacado jurista, académico y político, en un pionero de la historia naval...