Urdaneta y el Tornaviaje

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

La historia, la de España o cualquier otra, es una sucesión de acontecimientos que no cobra sentido hasta que el lector se detiene y reflexiona. La historia, la de España o cualquier otra, es una sucesión de acontecimientos que no cobra sentido hasta que el lector se detiene y reflexiona. Solo entonces advierte que hay sectores e intereses políticos, sociales y económicos que, camuflados en instituciones, sociedades o confesiones que parecen existir desde siempre, pretenden conservar a toda costa el poder y la hegemonía que en el pasado obtuvieron frente a la exigencia de igualdad,...

La obra analiza la historia del país de mediados de siglo XX, teniendo como eje articulador el Campo de Pisagua. El libro se interroga sobre su existencia y proyección política, amparado por la Ley de Defensa de la Democracia/Ley Maldita, en un período llamado de democratización.

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