Historias de la Prehistoria

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

Organización de la clandestinidad libertaria, el activismo político; Conquistadores de arena: los españoles encerrados en los campos de refugiados; Los anarquistas de Toulouse: entre la labor editorial y la lucha armada; Los anarquistas de l'Hospitalet:de los grupos de acción de los años veinte a la guerrilla urbana antifranquista; El franquismo: la pervivencia de los grupos afinitarios.

“Un estilo directo en que aúna rigor histórico y amenidad, ideal tanto para quienes conocen los entresijos de este dramático episodio de la historia como para los que se acercan por primera vez a él.” (Web Quiero leer) “Os presento Desafiando a Hitler (Tombooktu, 2012), otro atractivo título del nuevo sello de editorial Nowtilus, con un autor, Jesús Hernández, que es todo un experto en divulgación histórica.” (Blog Me gustan los libros) “Un muy interesante libro que nos da una visión de un puñado de personas que dieron, algunos incluso al vida, todo lo que tenían, para...

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