Errores y otros aciertos

La residencia presidencial de puertas adentro, a través de este pormenorizado relato de quien fue la primera dama durante ocho años. La política y los acontecimientos que signaron este período, y la vida cotidiana contada desde un punto de vista privilegiado.

Su nombre, empero, correrá unido a las generaciones que jamás podrán olvidarlo, porque incesantemente será en el viejo pueblo de la Armengola murmurado por las aguas de ese río al que puso dique contra frecuentes turbulencias de sus ondas, la munificencia y el cariño que por su pueblo amado sentía el ilustre paisano. Abelardo. L. Teruel.

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...