Historia de Pastrana Y Sucinta Noticia de Los Pueblos

En este libro, Carlos Piñeiro Iñíguez vuelca la pasión de toda una vida. Habiendo residido, en razón de sus actividades diplomáticas, en diferentes países de América Latina, la problemática de la región no dejó de ser el centro de sus preocupaciones y de sus estudios. Es ya autor de otros trabajos publicados sobre el área, especialmente acerca del mundo andino, Bolivia y Ecuador. Además, produjo un ensayo sobre la figura del brasileño Gilberto Freyre y el Lusotropicalismo, un libro de ensayos sobre Pedro Henríquez Ureña y un estudio sobre Raúl Prebisch y su influencia en el...

Silent convoys that sailed under the cover of the night, risky landing operations, naval battles in the open sea, José Luis Caballero covers these facts and much more in his narrative analysis. The naval battles, recreated with great mastery and precision, shows us the cruelty and epic ways of fighting during World War II. Convoyes silenciosos que navegaban al amparo de la noche, arriesgadas operaciones de desembarco, combates navales a mar abierto, acorazados capaces de destruir el enemigo con sus cañones de largo alcance, torpedos humanos, portaviones atentos a la aparición de kamikazes. ...

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

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