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El celebrado historiador Peter Wilson, autor de los monumentales La Guerra de los Treinta Años. Una tragedia europea y E l Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico , se embarca ahora en una obra no menos titánica, un relato sobre Alemania a través de cinco siglos de historia militar. Durante la mayor parte de su existencia, la Europa germanófona ha estado dividida en innumerables Estados, algunos muy relevantes, como Austria y Prusia, y otros formados por un puñado de valles alpinos. Su experiencia militar también ha sido extraordinariamente variada: a veces amenaza, a veces amenazada; en...

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...

Conspiración, intriga, corrupción, soborno, venganza... la historia de la República está sembrada de episodios que ponen de manifiesto un hecho fundamental: la lucha por la conquista del poder es un elemento decisivo. Tom Holland nos traslada a la época más apasionante de Roma, donde figuras de la talla de Cicerón o César conspiran para hacerse con el poder de la única superpotencia de la Tierra.