100 historias secretas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

100 historias secretas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial PDF Author: Jesús Hernández
Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL
ISBN: 849256721X
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 354

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La Segunda Guerra Mundial encierra todavía muchos secretos. Millones de documentos esperan todavía a ser desclasificados, pero poco a poco vamos conociendo historias impactantes y sorprendentes que se han mantenido ocultas durante décadas. En este libro, el lector podrá conocer los planes aliados para secuestrar a Hitler, asesinar científicos enemigos o atacar las ciudades alemanas con bombas bacteriológicas. También descubrirá los esfuerzos realizados para esconder de la luz pública accidentes y tragedias que se saldaron con centenares de muertos, así como el turbio pasado de colaboración con el régimen nazi de marcas comerciales que hoy gozan de un gran prestigio. Un velo de silencio cayó también sobre la vida personal de los grandes protagonistas de la contienda; la imagen virtuosa de Roosevelt, Eisenhower o Patton quedó salvaguardada durante años al encubrir sus relaciones extramatrimoniales. Pero en otros casos menos frívolos, como las muertes de Mussolini o Himmler, el misterio sobre las extrañas circunstancias en que se produjeron- y que siguen archivadas bajo el sello de alto secreto- continúan alimentando todo tipo de especulaciones...

100 historias secretas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

100 historias secretas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial PDF Author: Jesús Hernández
Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL
ISBN: 849256721X
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 354

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Book Description
La Segunda Guerra Mundial encierra todavía muchos secretos. Millones de documentos esperan todavía a ser desclasificados, pero poco a poco vamos conociendo historias impactantes y sorprendentes que se han mantenido ocultas durante décadas. En este libro, el lector podrá conocer los planes aliados para secuestrar a Hitler, asesinar científicos enemigos o atacar las ciudades alemanas con bombas bacteriológicas. También descubrirá los esfuerzos realizados para esconder de la luz pública accidentes y tragedias que se saldaron con centenares de muertos, así como el turbio pasado de colaboración con el régimen nazi de marcas comerciales que hoy gozan de un gran prestigio. Un velo de silencio cayó también sobre la vida personal de los grandes protagonistas de la contienda; la imagen virtuosa de Roosevelt, Eisenhower o Patton quedó salvaguardada durante años al encubrir sus relaciones extramatrimoniales. Pero en otros casos menos frívolos, como las muertes de Mussolini o Himmler, el misterio sobre las extrañas circunstancias en que se produjeron- y que siguen archivadas bajo el sello de alto secreto- continúan alimentando todo tipo de especulaciones...

La Revolucion Bolivariana Democratiza Los DD Hh Basicos

La Revolucion Bolivariana Democratiza Los DD Hh Basicos PDF Author: Carlos Gonz Lez Irago
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463313756
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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Book Description
Sobre el libro: La Revolución Bolivariana es un proceso en marcha y está creando colectivamente y democráticamente, paso a paso, golpe a golpe un nuevo modelo de estado. El estado bolivariano es auténtico se fundamenta en la historia, las ideas solidarias de Simón Bolívar y la prioridad de los derechos humanos básicos de "seguridad y subsistencia" de todos los venezolanos sin exclusiones. Es revolucionario primero porque incorpora participativamente a un sector mayoritario de la población -incluyendo a los pobres y a los militares-- que habían sido históricamente marginados y excluidos de la política, la economía y la sociedad. Segundo, porque el nuevo modelo de "Seguridad y Subsistencia" es lo opuesto a su predecesor histórico: el modelo de "Seguridad Nacional" o "Pacto de Punto Fijo." La "Seguridad Nacional" fue impuesta desde los Estados Unidos durante la guerra fría a toda su área de influencia y ha causado estragos: guerras, muertes, torturas y la violación sistemática de los derechos humanos en Venezuela, en Latinoamérica y en muchas partes del mundo. Tercero, porque el modelo bolivariano ofrece una respuesta democrática y solidaria al capitalismo salvaje que propone el neo-liberalismo en la actualidad. Venezuela hoy nos ofrece algo radicalmente diferente, es "la posibilidad optimista" de una democracia nueva, solidaria, soberana, socialista, moderna, no dogmática y por qué no, ecológica.

Las cien mejores anécdotas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Las cien mejores anécdotas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial PDF Author: Jesús Hernández
Publisher: ROCA EDITORIAL
ISBN: 8499186394
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 450

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Book Description
Uno de los libros de referencia de historia militar en la última década en nuestro país. Un libro repleto de aquellos sorprendentes detalles, de lo cotidiano del conflicto, que también fueron decisivos para definir el cambio de rumbo de la Historia. Jesús Hernández ha investigado un poco más allá de estrategias y versiones oficiales para crear este anecdotario, y arrancar así una sonrisa o alguna que otra cara de asombro. El libro aporta, además del centenar de anécdotas, otro capítulo destinado a curiosidades y un espacio destinado a pequeños récords, como la bomba más pesada o el piloto más condecorado

Franco and Hitler

Franco and Hitler PDF Author: Stanley G. Payne
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300122829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Book Description
Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees? This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions. Stanley Payne, a leading historian of modern Spain, explores the full range of Franco’s relationship with Hitler, from 1936 to the fall of the Reich in 1945. But as Payne brilliantly shows, relations between these two dictators were not only a matter of realpolitik. These two titanic egos engaged in an extraordinary tragicomic drama often verging on the dark absurdity of a Beckett or Ionesco play. Whereas Payne investigates the evolving relationship of the two regimes up to the conclusion of World War II, his principal concern is the enigma of Spain’s unique position during the war, as a semi-fascist country struggling to maintain a tortured neutrality. Why Spain did not enter the war as a German ally, joining with Hitler to seize Gibraltar and close the Mediterranean to the British navy, is at the center of Payne’s narrative. Franco’s only personal meeting with Hitler, in 1940 to discuss precisely this, is recounted here in groundbreaking detail that also sheds significant new light on the Spanish government’s vacillating policy toward Jewish refugees, on the Holocaust, and on Spain’s German connection throughout the duration of the war.

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony PDF Author: Brian Moynahan
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802191908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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The “gripping story” of a Nazi blockade, a Russian composer, and a ragtag band of musicians who fought to keep up a besieged city’s morale (The New York Times Book Review). For 872 days during World War II, the German Army encircled the city of Leningrad—modern-day St. Petersburg—in a military operation that would cripple the former capital and major Soviet industrial center. Palaces were looted and destroyed. Schools and hospitals were bombarded. Famine raged and millions died, soldiers and innocent civilians alike. Against the backdrop of this catastrophe, historian Brian Moynahan tells the story of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Seventh Symphony was first performed during the siege and became a symbol of defiance in the face of fascist brutality. Titled “Leningrad” in honor of the city and its people, the work premiered on August 9, 1942—with musicians scrounged from frontline units and military bands, because only twenty of the orchestra’s hundred members had survived. With this compelling human story of art and culture surviving amid chaos and violence, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony “brings new depth and drama to a key historical moment” (Booklist, starred review), in “a narrative that is by turns painful, poignant and inspiring” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “He reaches into the guts of the city to extract some humanity from the blood and darkness, and at its best Leningrad captures the heartbreak, agony and small salvations in both death and survival . . . Moynahan’s descriptions of the battlefield, which also draw from the diaries of the cold, lice-ridden, hungry combatants, are haunting.” —The Washington Post

Soldaderas in the Mexican Military

Soldaderas in the Mexican Military PDF Author: Elizabeth Salas
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292787669
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Book Description
This study explores the evolving role of women soldiers in Mexico—as both fighters and cultural symbols—from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women warriors—heroines, camp followers, Amazons, coronelas, soldadas, soldaderas, and Adelitas—indicate their ambivalent position within Mexican society. In this original study, Elizabeth Salas challenges many traditional stereotypes, shedding new light on the significance of these women. Drawing on military archival data, anthropological studies, and oral history interviews, Salas first explores the real roles played by Mexican women in armed conflicts. She finds that most of the functions performed by women easily equate to those performed by revolutionaries and male soldiers in the quartermaster corps and regular ranks. She then turns her attention to the soldadera as a continuing symbol, examining the image of the soldadera in literature, corridos, art, music, and film. Salas finds that the fundamental realities of war link all Mexican women, regardless of time period, social class, or nom de guerre.

National Union Catalog

National Union Catalog PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Hitler And Spain

Hitler And Spain PDF Author: Robert H. Whealey
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Book Description
The Spanish Civil War, begun in July 1936, was a preliminary round of World War II. Hitler's and Mussolini's cooperation with General Franco resulted in the Axis agreement of October 1936 and the subsequent Pact of Steel of May 1939, immediately following the end of the Civil War. This study presents comprehensive documentation of Hitler's use of the upheaval in Spain to strengthen the Third Reich diplomatically, ideologically, economically, and militarily. While the last great cause drew all eyes to Western Europe and divided the British and especially the French internally, Hitler could pursue territorial gains in Eastern Europe. This book, based on little-known German records and recently opened Spanish archives, fills a major gap in our understanding of one of the 20th century's most significant conflicts. Its comprehensive treatment of German-Spanish relations from 1936 through 1939, bringing together diplomatic, economic, military, and naval aspects, will be of great value to specialists in European diplomacy and the political economy of Nazi imperialism, as well as to all students of the Spanish Civil War.

Passing to América

Passing to América PDF Author: Thomas A. Abercrombie
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271082798
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a “woman in disguise.” Forced to submit to a medical inspection that revealed a woman’s body, Don Antonio confessed to having been María Yta, but continued to assert his maleness and claimed to have a functional “member” that appeared, he said, when necessary. Passing to América is at once a historical biography and an in-depth examination of the sex/gender complex in an era before “gender” had been divorced from “sex.” The book presents readers with the original court docket, including Don Antonio’s extended confession, in which he tells his life story, and the equally extraordinary biographical sketch offered by Felipa Ybañez of her “son María,” both in English translation and the original Spanish. Thomas A. Abercrombie’s analysis not only grapples with how to understand the sex/gender system within the Spanish Atlantic empire at the turn of the nineteenth century but also explores what Antonio/María and contemporaries can teach us about the complexities of the relationship between sex and gender today. Passing to América brings to light a previously obscure case of gender transgression and puts Don Antonio’s life into its social and historical context in order to explore the meaning of “trans” identity in Spain and its American colonies. This accessible and intriguing study provides new insight into historical and contemporary gender construction that will interest students and scholars of gender studies and colonial Spanish literature and history. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of New York University. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.

Here and There

Here and There PDF Author: Chaya Deitsch
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805243186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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A heartfelt and inspiring personal account of a woman raised as a Lubavitcher Hasid who leaves that world without leaving the family that remains within it. Even as a child, Chaya Deitsch felt that she didn’t belong in the Hasidic world into which she’d been born. She spent her teenage years outwardly conforming to but secretly rebelling against the rules that tell you what and when to eat, how to dress, whom you can befriend, and what you must believe. Loving her parents, grandparents, and extended family, Chaya struggled to fit in but instead felt angry, stifled, and frustrated. Upon receiving permission from her bewildered but supportive parents to attend Barnard College, she discovered a wider world in which she could establish an independent identity and fulfill her dream of an unconfined life that would be filled with the secular knowledge and culture that were largely foreign to her friends and relatives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As she gradually shed the physical and spiritual trappings of Hasidic life, Chaya found herself torn between her desire to be honest with her parents about who she now was and her need to maintain a loving relationship with the family that she still very much wanted to be part of. Eventually, Chaya and her parents came to an understanding that was based on unqualified love and a hard-won but fragile form of acceptance. With honesty, sensitivity, and intelligence, Chaya Deitsch movingly shows us that lives lived differently do not have to be lives lived apart.