Peregrinos En La Providencia

Rosalía Sender Begué narra en primera persona sus vivencias como hija de exiliados españoles en Francia, las vicisitudes y la lucha por la supervivencia en medio de la epopeya que arrastró a miles de refugiados a un exilio que duraría décadas. Asimismo da cuenta de las raíces de un firme compromiso político, de su militancia comunista en los años de lucha clandestina, de su empeño insobornable por restituir las libertades, acabar con la dictadura y construir un estado democrático y plural. Son las memorias de una luchadora antifranquista, hija de los que perdieron la Guerra Civil....

Biografía puntual e ilustrada del General Simón Bolívar, con base en los mas trascendentales episodios de su meteórica carrera político-militar. Producto de una rigurosa y detallada investigación, Delirio del Libertador describe las vivencias del estadista-guerrero venezolano. Como héroe de la historia universal, Simón Bolívar construyó las redes de la democracia e independencia en seis repúblicas; comandó en los campos de batalla a mas de un millón de soldados de diferentes nacionalidades, participó en 14 campañas militares, redactó varias constituciones y combatió en mas de ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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