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General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all the preceding works have tended toward one extreme of interpretation or the other. This is the first comprehensive scholarly biography of Franco in English that is objective and balanced in its coverage, treating all three major aspects of his life - personal, military, and political. The coauthors, both renowned historians of Spain, present a deeply researched account that has made extensive use of the Franco Archive (long inaccessible to historians). They have also conducted in-depth interviews with his only daughter to explain better his family background, personal life, and marital environment, as well as his military and political career. Franco: A Personal and Political Biography depicts his early life, explains his career and rise to prominence as an army officer who became Europe's youngest interwar brigadier general in 1926, and then discusses his role in the affairs of the troubled Second Spanish Republic (1931-36). Stanley G. Payne and Jesus Palacios examine in detail how Franco became dictator and how his leadership led to victory in the Spanish Civil War that consolidated his regime. They also explore Franco's role in the great repression that accompanied the Civil War-resulting in tens of thousands of executions - and examine at length his controversial role in World War II. This masterful biography highlights Franco's metamorphoses and adaptations to retain power as politics, culture, and economics shifted in the four decades of his dictatorship.

Biografía de esta mujer cazadora y se adentra en el mundo de la caza de mitad del siglo XX en España.

Extensively revised and updated, this edition of "Chambers Biographical Dictionary" covers a wide range of human achievement, and includes over 17,500 biographies in all. It is cross-referenced with many suggestions for further reading. Areas covered include: sport, music, radio; television; the arts, science, technology, politics, philosophy and business. 300 feature panels provide extra detail on particularly important or influential individuals or groups of people such as Alexander the Great, Albert Einstein and the Pankhursts. Full cross-referencing allows the reader to explore beyond the individual - thus not only answering a specific enquiry about one person, but leading to information on their contemporaries or the people they influenced - and thousands of suggestions for further reading direct the reader to keyworks on or by the person in question. Covering the full diversity of human achievement from Boudicca to Nelson Mandela, Isaac Newton to Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton to David Beckham, the Dictionary is packed with biographies which span the centuries.

Ante la gran aceptación del Diccionario de Santa Teresa que esta Editorial presentó en su Serie Manual, aparece ahora éste mismo título, pero dentro de la Serie Gran Formato. La principal diferencia entre ambos no es la de su formato o paginacion, sin duda mayores, sino la de su contenido, que en esta ocasion es doble: Doctrinal, con las lineas maestras del pensamiento teresiano, e Historico, con la biografia de Teresa; referencias a personas, lugares e instituciones presentes en sus escritos; entorno geografico y cultural; mas un sin fin de datos acerca de su historia postuma: bibliografias, patronatos, doctorado, etc. En total, un millar y medio de unidades tematicas que ponen a foco la centralidad de Teresa en la cultura del Siglo de oro español y su actualidad doctoral en el mundo de hoy. La seriedad del trabajo viene avalada por el equipo colaborador y, sobre todo, por la personalidad de su director, el P. Tomas Alvarez, teresianista consumado y maestro de teresianistas.

Friedrich Katz, reconocido estudioso de la historia de México, arranca esta monumental biografía con una reconstrucción minuciosa de la realidad porfiriana de Chihuahua y de las condiciones que situaron a ese estado en el centro del proceso revolucionario, y continua con una descripcion de la vida de forajido que llevo Villa antes de la revolucion y de su surgimiento como dirigente revolucionario menor hasta convertirse en el general que encabezo ese huracan que fue la Division del Norte, probablemente el mayor ejercito revolucionario que se haya producido en America Latina.