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Publicado originalmente en 1976 y actualizado en 2004, este es el libro que consagró a John Keegan como el mejor historiador militar de su generación. Un análisis de tres batallas emblemáticas del arte de la guerra: Agincourt, Waterloo y el Somme, contadas desde el punto de vista del soldado que lucha en primera línea. Es una mirada a la experiencia directa de las personas “en el punto de máximo peligro”, examinando las condiciones físicas de la confrontación, las emociones particulares, las dinámicas que se experimentan en el campo... y los motivos por los que el soldado se...

La presente obra explora la trayectoria intelectual de Eric Hobsbawm. Por medio de sucesivas aproximaciones, se propone explicar al historiador; o si se prefiere, es una tentativa de reconstruir una de las más fecundadas líneas de la historia social, que ha sido considerada clásica.

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

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