Lo que el mar despertó. Voz testimonial de un tsunami en Chile

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

En 1801, los inquisidores de Cuenca iniciaban los procesos contra Isabel Herraiz y más de una veintena de sus seguidores. Esta fue la última causa importante juzgada por el tribunal inquisitorial conquense. Dotada de un considerable don de gentes y con gran poder de persuasión, la beata de Villar del Águila logró que muchos creyesen en su virtud y en las maravillas que, según aseguraba, Dios había obrado en su persona. En la transubstanciación del cuerpo de la beata creyeron un convento de frailes franciscanos caso completo, varios canónigos y otros clérigos de reconocido prestigio...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...