Los milagros de Lourdes

This book does a great job of trying to cover all the significant events and chapters in Napoleon's life. It covers all the important military campaigns, including the reasons for going to war, but also provides excellent coverage of Napoleon's youth in Corsica, his marriages and affairs, his economic policies and political and diplomatic strategies.

Explores the formation and teachings of Martin Luther, examining his life, his times, and his writings

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...

Guadalupe Salcedo Unda (Arauca, 1922 - Bogotá, 6 de junio de 1957) fue cabecilla de uno de los grupos de las guerrillas liberales que operaron en los Llanos desde 1949 a 1953, surgidas para defenderse del ataque de la violencia conservadora promovida desde el gobierno de Colombia contra los liberales, luego de los sucesos del 9 de abril a causa del asesinato del caudillo liberal Jorge Eliecer Gaitán y que desataron las hostilidades entre liberales y conservadores en el periodo conocido como la época de La Violencia en Colombia. La fama de Guadalupe Salcedo provino de las exitosas...