Juan Ladrilleros

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Campos de muerte. Geografía del mal no pretende ser un inventario de la crueldad, sino un fogonazo de la profunda vileza que caracteriza a nuestra especie. En sus páginas se desentraña la implacable evidencia de la sangre y las lágrimas derramadas por millones de deportados, víctimas del hambre, el agotamiento, las enfermedades o, simplemente, el asesinato. Campos de exterminio, torturas, experimentos médicos aberrantes, mano de obra esclava, inhumanas condiciones de vida. Crímenes como los del Holocausto, los cometidos por el régimen estalinista o los del Jémer Rojo, junto con las...

Manuel Fernández Álvarez nos acerca en esta obra a la figura de Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, más conocido en la Historia como el Gran Duque de Alba. Sus avatares, sus sentimientos, sus aciertos y desaciertos al servicio de dos monarcas que marcaron nuestra historia, Carlos V y Felipe II. Un contexto privilegiado, la España imperial del siglo XVI, en el que Alba desempeña uno de los principales y más controvertidos papeles de la época.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...