La hoguera de Montsegur

La historia puede ser muy, pero muy aburrida. Con desabridas genealogías monárquicas, crónicas tediosas, miles de batallas y cero gracia. Hasta ahora. Si en el primer volumen de Historia Universal Freak fue el turno de la Prehistoria, la Edad Media y demases, ahora es el turno de la modernidad. Desde Napoleón hasta nuestros días te enterarás de que gracias a ese emperador –que era en realidad más alto que el francés medio de la época– contamos con comida enlatada, pues ofreció un premio a quien solucionara el dilema de la conservación de la comida en campañas largas. Y que...

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Más de 700 imágenes procedentes de los archivos de Magnum-Contraste, Roger Viollet y Giunti, realizadas por maestros de la fotografía como Robert Capa o Henri Cartier-Bresson ilustran este magnífico recorrido por la más devastadora guerra “total” que invo