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Miquel Caralt nos invita a repasar más de un millón de años de la historia de España a través de un cautivador diálogo en el que descubriremos los eventos más canónicos de la península.Entre los primeros pobladores de la peninsula Iberica y la abdicacion del rey Juan Carlos I existe un trecho de mas de un millon de años. En Deja que te cuente la historia de España descubriremos algunos de los hechos mas relevantes, las fechas mas decisivas y los personajes mas determinantes; sin olvidar al pueblo, tantas veces silenciado.Apuntate a este viaje apasionante, dramatico, complejo y eterno que respondera a preguntas como ¿quienes eran realmente los iberos y los celtas?, ¿como consiguieron al-Andalus y su cultura deslumbrar a media Europa?, ¿que es la Monarquia hispanica?, ¿cuales fueron las principales aportaciones del reformismo borbonico del siglo XVIII?, ¿cuando nace la nacion española? y muchas otras mas.

Agosto de 1914, Alemania y Austria-Hungría lanzan sus ejércitos a la guerra con resolución inquebrantable, convencidas en que la justicia estaba de su lado y confiadas en una veloz y decisiva victoria. Apenas un mes despues, la feroz embestida de Alemania se habia atascado en el oeste al tiempo que Austria-Hungria sufria catastroficas perdidas en el este. El sueño de una rapida victoria se tornaba en pesadilla a una escala nunca antes soñada que desgarraria los campos, incendiaria los cielos y sacudiria los mares de la vieja Europa. Para las Potencias Centrales la guerra se convirtio en un monstruoso asedio, estranguladas por el implacable bloqueo britanico que abocaba a sus pueblos a la inanicion y emasculaba su esfuerzo belico, y rodeadas de enemigos mas poderosos y numerosos. Un anillo de acero que se ceñia inexorablemente sobre sus gargantas. En esta magistral y multipremiada relectura de la Primera Guerra Mundial desde la perspectiva de las Potencias Centrales, Alexander Watson, autor del celebrado La fortaleza, pone al lector en la piel de sus perdedores, tanto de los lideres de Berlin y Viena, como especialmente de los pueblos de Europa central para, a traves de sus experiencia individuales y colectivas, hacernos participes de sus padecimientos pero tambien dejar patente la movilizacion y aquiescencia, mas o menos entusiasta, del grueso de la sociedad para llevar a cabo esta primera guerra total hasta sus ultimas consecuencias. Asi, en su libro Watson explora como se consiguio y mantuvo el consenso para desatar y sostener la guerra, como el propio devenir de la misma fue germen de radicalizacion de sus sociedades y como estas se fragmentaron, desatando los conflictos de clase y etnicos que precipitaron el colapso politico y que inocularian un venenoso legado de amargura y violencia que tendria un corolario funesto menos de dos decadas despues. El anillo de acero es, por tanto, una imprescindible reevaluacion militar, politica, economica, social y cultural de la Primera Guerra Mundial, esencial para cualquiera que desee comprender el ultimo siglo de la historia europea.Ganador del premio Guggenheim-Lehrman de historia militarGanador del premio Wolfson de historiaGanador del premio Distinguished Book Award de la Society of Military History

George Downing came of age as a Puritan pioneer in colonial Massachusetts, before crossing the Atlantic to sign up for the English Civil War. He fast became Oliver Cromwells chief of military intelligence and was later a diplomat and an MP. However, Downing spectacularly switched sides, shamelessly betraying his friends. He prospered under Charles II, yet he remains one of the most elusive figures of his age. In Turncoat he emerges as the extraordinary - if troubling - anti-hero of his own life story. Judged by contemporaries to be a fearful gentleman and a perfidious rogue, Downing was a double-dealer who bribed and blackmailed his way to diplomatic success across Europe; and, when it was expedient, betrayed friends to horrifically violent deaths. He pioneered the practice of judicial kidnapping known today as extraordinary rendition, was a booster of the Atlantic slave trade and had a hand in starting two major wars. Always at the centre of events, Downing engaged with the most illustrious men and women of his times. His patrons were Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II. Samuel Pepys was his clerk; John Milton prepared his letters and dispatches. William of Orange was godfather to his son; his next-door neighbour was Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia; and when Downing finally built his street, his surveyor was Sir Christopher Wren. Turncoat follows George Downing from the asceticism of Puritan New England, across English battlefields, through courts, chancelleries and parliaments, to the fleshpots of Restoration London, where he would spend his final years in unrestrained indulgence as one of the richest men in the kingdom.

Need a reason to feel mnásome? Look no further!For each day of the year, we celebrate Irish women, their extraordinary achievements and landmark victories. From stone-throwing suffragists, scientific geniuses and intrepid adventurers to controversial writers, record-breaking sportswomen and global music icons all determined to shape their own destinies.These are the Mna na hEireann who took on the patriarchy, one hard-fought milestone at a time; the unsung heroes and fearless firebrands who shaped Irelands past and inspire its future. Youll never be prouder.

For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, from Soviet atheism to the chaotic 1990s. Now again, it is at the right hand of power, sanctifying Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes distort theology as they preach Slav Christian supremacy and drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages. Combining historical research with vivid present-day reportage, The Baton and the Cross explores the impact the Church is having on millions of lives - from the tower blocks of big cities to far-flung villages in Siberia. Delving into the underbelly of politics, state security and big money, Ash shows how these forces have formed an unholy alliance with Orthodoxy in the dystopia of twenty-first century Russia.

Im letzten Jahrzehnt erschienen zahlreiche Beitrage, die den transnationalen Charakter des Faschismus untersuchten, wenige jedoch gingen auf die Verstrickungen und Einflusse zwischen dem Dritten Reich und den rechtsradikalen Bewegungen der deutschen Minderheiten in Sudosteuropa ein. Der vorliegen- de Band mochte diese Lucke schlieen, indem erUntersuchungen uber die NS-Bewegungen unter den Deutschen in Rumanien, Ungarn, Jugoslawien und der Tschechoslowakei sowie deren Beziehungen zu Deutschland veroffentlicht. Die Kapitel behandeln Aspekte wie das Anwachsen der NS-Bewegung unter den jungen "Volksdeutschen", das Kulturleben, die Veranderungen in der deutschsprachigen Presse oder die Ressourcen-Mobilisierung zur Unterstutzung des von Hitler gefuhrten Krieges. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird dem Transfer von Praktiken in Politik, Ideologie und Propaganda geschenkt.

Covers Petersburgs political, social, economic, architectural, cultural and intellectual history, recounting events of world importance, and the often tragic lives of the citys many great citizens. This book focuses on the citys key role as a link to the West and in modernizing Russia and encouraging the growth of civil society.

Alice Hunt brilliantly reanimates this most extraordinary decade. It is a gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one of joy and hopeful innovation, told with eloquence and passion.MALCOLM GASKILLA magisterial, compelling and eye-opening biography of Britains great and extraordinary experiment.SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB Events moved with giddying speed in the 1650s. After the execution of Charles I, dangerous monarchy was abolished and the House of Lords was dismissed, sending shock waves across the kingdom. These revolutionary acts set in motion a decade of bewildering change and instability, under the leadership of the soldier-statesman Oliver Cromwell. Englands unique and distinctive republican experiment may have been short-lived, but it changed the course of British history. It transformed the relationship between England, Scotland and Ireland, reset the compact between the monarch and the people, and re-fashioned the story the British told - and continue to tell - about themselves. REPUBLIC is a richly engrossing year-by-year account of this exhilarating and daring period. It tells the story of what Britains republic was really like: why it failed, but also, what it got right.