Los egipcios

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

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La batalla del Somme se cuenta entre los conflictos más sangrientos de todos los tiempos. Con todo, y a pesar de los horrores y la destrucción de la batalla, ésta se caracterizó por la increíble valentía individual de quienes la libraron.

El presente libro de Jeremy Black es un estudio temático (las ciudades, los conflictos bélicos, la política institucional, las artes, etc.) del siglo XVIII, desde el 1700 hasta la Revolución francesa. Una exploración de los elementos fundamentales que configuran las sociedades europeas en esos casi cien años. Un compendio así trata de sintetizar las formas de vida, el desarrollo económico y los conflictos dinásticos confrontando distintos países y culturas.