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La biografía del líder comunista español Santiago Carrillo, figura fundamental del siglo XX.El fallecimiento de Santiago Carrillo el 28 de octubre de 2012 puso fin a noventa y siete años vividos intensamente y en primera fila de la politica. Hijo de Wenceslao Carrillo, dirigente socialista, su primer recuerdo era visitar a su padre en prision. Aun adolescente participo en la huelga de 1934 y paso por la carcel, donde se radicalizo. Tras un viaje a Moscu logro unificar las juventudes del PSOE y del PCE en visperas de la Guerra Civil, para a continuacion unirse a los comunistas. Durante la guerra ocurrio uno de los episodios mas oscuros de su vida, la matanza de presos rebeldes en Paracuellos, cuando era responsable de seguridad en Madrid. Tras la guerra permanecio treinta y ocho años exiliado, siempre en la direccion comunista, que ejercio con mano de hierro. Su giro hacia el eurocomunismo y su papel fundamental en la Transicion aliviaron su figura.Paul Preston, el historiador mas importante del siglo XX español, autor de las biografias definitivas de Franco y de Juan Carlos I, dedica su nuevo libro a uno de los personajes mas fascinantes e inasibles de la historia reciente de nuestro pais.La critica ha dicho... ...su demoledor y controvertido retrato del principal lider de la oposicion antifranquista arrancara sarpullidos.El PaisUna extensa y lucida biografia del historico jefe del Partido Comunista Español.El Mundo

The first, authoritative history of Spain's darkest period. In a work of meticulous scholarship and research, Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain, charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all 'those who do not think as we do' - some 200,000 innocent men, women and children across Spain.

Santiago Carrillo. El penediment no existeix desvetlla informacions inèdites sobre el polític i n'aclareix d'altres que s'han mantingut en l'ambigüitat i la foscor. Des de la polèmica actuació de Car

Aquesta és la història d’una tragèdia humana que s’hauria pogut evitar i que va costar la vida de milers de persones. Els seus protagonistes van ser tres: el president del govern de la República, Jua

Un análisis imparcial y ponderado de las políticas de derechas en el siglo XX en España.Si hubiera de medirse el peso político que las fuerzas de la derecha y las fuerzas de la izquierda tuvieron en la España del siglo XX, no cabe duda de que la balanza se inclinaria del lado de las primeras. Sin embargo, paradojicamente, los historiadores han tendido a prestar mas atencion a las segundas.El presente volumen viene a corregir esta desviacion. En los nueve ensayos que lo componen, Paul Preston analiza las interacciones entre el fascismo y el militarismo, desde los asaltos a la democracia en la decada de los treinta hasta los extremismos golpistas de la transicion, pasando,naturalmente, por la guerra civil y por el franquismo. El conjunto arroja nueva luz sobre numerosos aspectos de la historia contemporanea de España, y muy especialmente sobre los papeles que en ella han desempeñado el Ejercito y la Falange.

Aquesta és una edició ampliada i revisada que inclou més de 50 fotografies originals. Sense dubte, una de les obres de referència sobre la Guerra Civil Espanyola.Aquesta nova edició, profusament ampl

Las biografías de algunos de los corresponsales más destacados que cubrieron la Guerra Civil española.La Guerra Civil española supuso la consagración del corresponsal de guerra. Durante casi tres años los ojos del mundo se fijaron en España, y lo mas granado de la prensa internacional acudio a dar fe de lo que ocurria. Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, John Dos Passos, Mijail Koltsov, W.H. Auden, Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, George Orwell, Kim Philby y muchos otros pasaron por España y escribieron lo que vieron, o al menos lo que pudieron. En condiciones precarias, afrontando graves riesgos e inmersos en el frenesi del combate, a todos ellos les transformo la guerra.Paul Preston presenta enIdealistas bajo las balas el retrato de un colectivo legendario, deteniendose en las biografias de algunos de los corresponsales mas destacados: Louis Fischer, Mijail Koltsov, George Steer, Jay Allen; y de aquellos que mantuvieron encendida la llama de la Republica: Herbert Southworth y Henry Buckley. El resultado es un homenaje a todos los que acudieron a observar los acontecimientos y pronto se vieron atrapados por la fascinacion de uno de los conflictos decisivos del siglo XX.Reseña:No puedo sino elogiarlo. Preston deshace los hilos enredados de las mentiras y nos presenta una imagen lucida y una lectura amena.Nicholas Shakespeare,Daily Telegraph

Doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Oxford, profesor de Historia Española Contemporánea en la prestigiosa London School of Economics, autor de una docena de títulos sobre la España reciente, Paul Preston conoce como nadie la figura de Francisco Franco. En El gran manipulador, Preston nos ofrece una biografia accesible y actualizada, que cubre todos los aspectos necesarios para entender la figura del general (su ascension en el ejercito durante la Republica, la Guerra Civil, la posguerra y las relaciones con Hitler, los cuarenta años de dictadura) y muestra como estuvo siempre obsesionado por controlar la imagen, progresivamente camaleonica, que ofrecia al mundo.

Con ocasión del octogesimo aniversario del estallido de la guerra civil, Debate publica esta edición actualizada de la obra que mejor ha documentado el conflicto: La guerra civil española de Paul Preston. La guerra civil española de Paul Preston es uno de los textos de referencia sobre el conflicto que asolo España entre 1936 y 1939 y marco el resto del siglo XX. Ahora, cuando se cumplen ochenta años del golpe de estado que desencadeno la guerra, Preston, uno de los hispanistas de mayor prestigio internacional, actualiza y amplia su estudio incorporando tanto las ultimas investigaciones y polemicas historiograficas, como abundante material inedito. Imprescindible para conocer la violenta realidad que asolo España, este libro contribuye a conservar un relato comun de aquella tragedia colectiva, algo esencial para el ejercicio cotidiano de la democracia. Reseña:"La mirada lucida y certera de un maestro de historiadores sobre la mayor tragedia española del siglo XX."Enrique Moradiellos Reseña:"La mirada lucida y certera de un maestro de historiadores sobre la mayor tragedia española del siglo XX."Enrique Moradiellos

In the heat of summer in a Southern California seaside town, the spiritual and sensual worlds collide when Laura, a former drama student and lovely wife of a Christian minister becomes sexually attracted to Stephen, a slender spiritually conflicted security guard for submissive female performers at a secret underground theater, the Adam and Eve Club. When Laura meets Stephen at the club to persuade him to rejoin the Christian faith, she is drawn into the theater by a bright hypnotic light. She watches a pretty submissive performer on the stage engaging in a sexual act while being held in bondage by her Dom. Though initially repulsed, her body responds to the show on a deeply sexual level. She is cornered in the office of the powerful and handsome owner of the club, Phillipe Williamson, and falls deeper into the sensual abyss by becoming his collared submissive. Both Stephen and Williamson vie for Lauras affection. Laura overcomes the humiliation of being removed from a college play by her father and Stephen finally accepts his true nature as a Dom when Williamson agrees to allow them to perform in a show together at The Adam and Eve Club. In a dramatic confrontation with her husband, Laura must choose between her role as a ministers wife and her newly discovered true nature of a sexual submissive. Includes male domination, light consensual bondage, spanking and several highly erotic sexually charged scenes. Paul Preston is an erotic novelist living in Southern California. The Awakening of Laura is the first in a trilogy of novels about Phillipe Williamson and the Adam and Eve Club. The other two books in the series, Bella Lisa and Her Beast and The Phantom Phillipe will also be released by Pink Flamingo Publications.

Meet Phillipe Williamson, a handsome selfmade multimillionaire portfolio manager and real estate broker to the Southern California rich by day, and owner of The Adam and Eve Club, an underground theater which stages taboo sensual performances between Dominants and their submissives, by night. Seeking to escape from the physical and psychological scars of an abusive foster father, Williamson becomes obsessed by an attractive younger woman, Bella Lisa Mauricio. After foolhardy stock transactions cause Bella Lisas Father to become unable to make the mortgage payments for his beachfront condo owned by Phillipe, her father incurs a $250,000 debt to Williamson. In order to protect her father from financial ruin, Bella Lisa agrees to spend a week held captive in Williamsons 25th Floor Penthouse home. After Williamson seduces Bella Lisa and provides the most sexually stimulating experience of her life, she gives in to his request to become his sub for the week. As one sensual interlude leads to the next, their emotional bond grows stronger, despite their age difference. But when Bell Lisa breaks the rules of the home by wandering into the forbidden West Wing, the Beast that lives within Williamsons fractured mind is revealed to her. Williamson must choose whether to protect the woman he loves, or give in to the Beasts demand of marking her permanently as his sub. Bella Lisa and Her Beast, an adult adaptation of the classic childrens fairy tale, is the second installment in the Adam and Eve Series. In the first book, The Awakening of Laura the sensual troubled psyche of Williamson is introduced. His story comes to a dramatic conclusion with the soon to be published third title of the series, The Phantom Phillipe. Paul Preston is an erotic novelist living in Los Angeles, California. Along with The Adam and Eve Series, he is the author of The Harem and The Memoir of Veronica Wells, also to be made available by Pink Flamingo Publications.

Recovering from a selfinflicted wound, multimillionaire entrepreneur Phillipe Williamson feels insecure about the sexual connection with his lovely young submissive, Bella Lisa Mauricio and is unable to engage in intimacy with her without physical pain. After their intense and sensual week together, Phillipe and Bella Lisa both realize the nature of their relationship is changing. Afraid of the growing bond between them and confused about entering into a deeper emotional commitment to Phillipe due to their age difference, Bella Lisa meets Raoul Martinez, a young social worker, at her new job. Sexually drawn to one another, they act upon their mutual attraction and Raoul falls deeply in love with her. Bella Lisa admits to her affair and Williamson accepts it at first, willing to share Bella Lisa with the younger man rather than lose her completely. Bella Lisa becomes torn between the conventional sexual relationship and married life offered by Raoul and the forbidden pleasures in the West Wing only Mr. Williamson can provide. After a terrible and traumatic accident burns his skin beyond repair, Phillipe must cover his face with a mask. Phillipe stops taking his antipsychotic medication, closes himself away in his condo and considers suicide. A close friend and adult movie star, Carlotta, comforts Phillipe in his pain. After Phillipe rescues Christine, a prostitute who was abused as a child, Phillipe discovers that Joseph Buquet, the sadistic foster father who inflicted the physical and psychological scars on both Phillipe and Christine 32 years ago, is still alive. Phillipe hears the Voice of the Beast once more, summoning him to action. With the help of Carlotta, Williamson retreats into the subterranean bowels of his theater, The Adam and Eve Club, and plots his revenge against the man he holds personally responsible for the tragedy that shattered his life. The complex and sexual story of Phillipe Williamsons life, first introduced in The Awakening of Laura, an adult adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, and expanded on in Bella Lisa and Her Beast, an erotic retelling of Beauty and the Beast, is brought to a dramatic conclusion in The Phantom Phillipe, a sensual version of The Phantom of the Opera.

Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston`s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.It has many protagonists but centres on three individuals. One, Dr Juan Negrin, the victim of what might be termed a conspiracy of fools, tried to prevent it. Two bore responsibility for what transpired. One of those, Julian Besteiro, was guilty of culpable naivety. The other, Segismundo Casado behaved with a remarkable combination of cynicism, arrogance and selfishness.On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Casado launched a military coup against the government of Juan Negrin. Ironically, he ensured that the end of the Spanish Civil War was almost identical to its beginning. As Mola, Franco and the other conspirators of 1936 had done, Casado led a part of the Republican Army in revolt against the Republican government. He claimed, as they had done, and equally without foundation, that Negrin`s government was the puppet of the Communist Party and that a coup was imminent to establish a Communist dictatorship.Casado`s ambition was to go down in history as the man who ended the Spanish Civil War. Instead he ensured the Republic ended in catastrophe and shame as Negrin`s attempts to achieve an honourable and negotiated peace with guarantees for the civilian population were thwarted and Franco and his forces wreaked havoc and revenge. Madrid collapsed into civil war and two thousand people died. Refugees fled reprisals in their thousands and those who couldn`t escape met a terrible fate.Paul Preston, the leading historian of 20th century Spain, tells this shocking story for the first time in English. It is a harrowing tale of how the flawed decisions of politicans can lead to tragedy..