La vuelta a la historia en cincuenta frases

Cuando las tropas alidadas entraron en Europa tras vencer a los nazis, hallaron en los múltiples campos de concentración y exterminio las huellas de uno de los mayores crímenes de la Humanidad: el llamado Holocausto. A partir de ese momento nació el deseo de buscar justicia. En este libro se retrata la "caza de hienas", que tuvo algunas incidencias casi de ficción, y logra un texto de lectura apasionante y, a la vez, conmovedora.

Publicado pela primeira vez em 1968, é um clássico e esclarecedor estudo sobre a história da política contemporânea. Escrito por Peter Calvocoressi, uma figura de destaque mundial no campo das relações internacionais, participante do Julgamento de Nuremberg e professor de Relações Internacionais na Universidade de Sussex, Grã-Bretanha, este livro é essencial para a formação de historiadores, cientistas políticos, sociólogos, jornalistas e leitores em geral. Aclamado pelo The Sunday Times pelo seu rigor e pela riqueza magistral do seu conteúdo, apresenta um panorama geral e...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...