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Should we humanize the world's most inhumane leaders?Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Vladimir Lenin. These cruel dictators wrote their names on the pages of history in the blood of countless innocent victims. Yet they themselves were once young people searching for their place in the world, dealing with challenges many of us faceparental authority, education, romance, lossand doing so in ways that might be uncomfortably familiar.Historian Brandon K. Gauthier has created a fascinating workepic yet intimate, well-researched but immensely readable, clear-eyed and empatheticlooking at the lives of these six dictators, with a focus on their youths. We watch Lenins older brother executed at the hands of the Tsars policean event that helped radicalize this overachieving high-schooler. We observe Stalin grappling with the death of his young, beautiful wife. We see Hitlers mother mourning the loss of three young childrenand determined that her first son to survive infancy would find his place in the world.

El objetivo de la obra consiste en ofrecer, por primera vez al público de habla hispana, un estudio riguroso sobre todo el proceso revolucionario que tuvo lugar en Noruega a lo largo del año 1814 y que, fundamentado juridicamente por la creacion de una Co

Al igual que en sus libros anteriores ("Villa Wanda" y "Ummo"), Eduardo Bravo nos acerca una memoria del desmierde político social reciente que causa entre rubor, estupor e indignación, ligando sucesos aparentemente inconexos que resultarian comicos de no ser, desgraciadamente, ciertos. En esta ocasion, el grupo terrorista de ultraderecha AAA (La triple A), Peron, su exilio en España, su regreso a Argentina y los siniestros nexos en la politica de ambos paises son el eje sobre el que gira AAA. Del peronismo magico al caso Almiron. En su movimiento de traslacion nos iremos topando con sectas leninistas, magos y videntes como asesores gubernamentales, esoterismo politico, logias masonicas, Billy el Niño como agente infiltrado, secuestros editoriales y de los otros. Muy entretenido, eso si, te deja un pelin de mala hostia.

A fines del siglo XIX la voracidad capitalista del Estado-nación occidental se proyectó hacia dentro, amalgamando sus partes en el espejismo de una gran nación en la que comulgarían magnates y desposeidos. Pero tambien proyecto su fuerza expansiva hacia todo el mundo no occidental, al que colonizo. Al mismo tiempo atizo las llamas de dos colosales conflictos: el derivado de la agresion colonial, y el que enfrento sangrientamente a principios del siglo XX a las potencias. Los capitalismos de Estado dirigieron sus esfuerzos a convencer a sus masas desposeidas de que ese giro les traeria gloria fuera y bienestar en casa. Con ello se atizaron otros macro-conflictos entre los poderes coloniales europeos por conquistar la hegemonia, a los que pronto se sumaron los Estados Unidos.

At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increasing interest in the expansionist plans of the Fuhrer of Germany.The Windsors at War tells the story of the turbulent and seismic decade in between 1937 and 1947, including the bombing of Buckingham Palace in May 1940, the Duke of Windsor's ill-advised visit to Germany in October 1937 and the death of the Duke of Kent in a plane crash in August 1942. It answers a simple question: how did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes?

A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION. Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. 'Engrossing...a remarkable story' Sunday TimesHere, through the sweeping lens of his own and his father's life, Ai Weiwei tells an epic tale of China over the last 100 years, from the Cultural Revolution to the modern-day Chinese Communist Party.Here is the story of a childhood spent in desolate exile after his father, Ai Qing, once China's most celebrated poet, fell foul of the authorities. Here is his move to America as a young man and his return to China, his rise from unknown to art-world superstar and international rights activist. Here is his extraordinary account of how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime.

El autor aborda en este libro las causas de la Operación Barbarroja y el origen de la concepción de la guerra de Rusia como una guerra de exterminio. Reconstruye las peculiares circunstancias del frente oriental, decisivas a la hora de provocar una brutalizacion sin precedentes de la guerra y alimentar una escalada de terror y represalias tanto en los escenarios de combate como en la retaguardia. Eso tambien tuvo un reflejo en las actitudes de los ocupantes hacia la poblacion civil, el impulso definitivo a la solucion final que llevo al exterminio de los judios, en la explotacion economica del territorio y de la poblacion civil como mano de obra forzada, y en el desarrollo de una guerra de guerrillas en retaguardia no menos atroz que en el frente. Las batallas decisivas libradas entre 1942 y 1943 son asi entendidas dentro de un contexto mas amplio, que incluye ante todo la reconstruccion de la experiencia de los combatientes de a pie, tanto ocupantes como sovieticos, los sufrimientos de la poblacion civil y las percepciones de que es lo que estaba en juego en una guerra apocaliptica.

Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa (Antequera, 1983) es profesor en el Departamento de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de la Universidad de Málaga. El libro que presenta constituye un análisis de las transformaciones experimentadas por el mundo en losultimos cuarenta años, correspondientes al periodo vital de la generacion millennial a la que el mismo pertenece. Concebido como una reflexion retrospectiva de su propio tiempo historico, motivada por el colapso global provocado por la COVID-19, el autorse centra en tres ejes centrales: el desmoronamiento de la URSS y el cierre imperfecto de la Guerra Fria; la decada transcurrida entre 1990 y el año 2000 como periodo de transicion, no por ello exento de fenomenos de relevancia tambien planetaria, como lasGuerras Yugoslavas o el nacimiento de la Union Europea; y finalmente los decenios del siglo XXI vividos hasta la fecha presente, en los cuales el terrorismo internacional, de la mano de la guerra institucionalizada, vuelve a dominar el panorama global. Todo ello en un clima de desmovilizacion y polarizacion progresiva, que convierte a la sociedad en un actor cada vez mas pasivo ante la injusticia y lainiquidad, y crecientemente agresivo ante el disenso.Puesto que abarca un amplio abanico de factores que condicionan la vida de varias generaciones coetaneas presentes, esta obra constituye un interesante instrumento de debate y analisis.

Number one New York Times best sellerBig Oil and Gas versus democracy - winner take allA rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil and gas industry on the world today. (The New York Times Book Review)In 2010, the words earthquake swarm entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia - including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove - was sold at auction for more than one million dollars to a guy who was, officially, just the lowly forestry minister of the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea. And in 2014, Ukrainian revolutionaries raided the palace of their ousted president and found a zoo of peacocks, gilded toilets, and a floating restaurant modeled after a Spanish galleon. Unlikely as it might seem, there is a thread connecting these events, and Rachel Maddow follows it to its crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, revealing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas along the way, and drawing a surprising conclusion about how and why the Russian government hacked the 2016 US election. She deftly shows how Russias rich reserves of crude oil have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russias rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the Wests most important alliances, and the United States. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson. The oil and gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You cant really blame the lion. Its in her nature."Blowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on Earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the worlds most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, "Democracy either wins this one or disappears."

A gripping and illuminating picture of how strongmen have deployed violence, seduction, and corruption' Daniel Ziblatt, coauthor of How Democracies Die'A timely analysis of how a certain kind of charisma delivers political disaster' Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyOurs is the age of the strongman. Countries from Russia to India, Turkey to America are ruled by men who combine populist appeal with authoritarian policy. They have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And they do so by drawing on a playbook of behaviour established by figures such as Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler. So why despite the evidence of history do strongmen still hold such appeal for us?

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war'Seldom is war so vividly described...An assault on the senses...Painful to read, impossible to put down' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Epic and moving...Holland brings this cramped universe vividly to life' Patrick Bishop, Daily Telegraph______It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in the Second World War. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vulnerable to enemy attack from all sides. Living - and dying - in a tank was a brutal way to fight a war.

Son disidentes y sus vidas muestran la fe de una Europa desconocida, llena de vigor y creatividad, que contrasta con la decadencia y el cansancio vital de tantos otros lugares de Occidente.