Retratos del Medioevo

Todos conocemos la figura de Hernán Cortés, casi todo lector tiene una opinión sobre su polémica incidencia histórica, que suele concitar la animadversión (sobre todo en México) o la admiración irrestricta, sin matices. Pero pocos conocen de verdad su vida. Juan Miralles se ha dedicado durante casi treinta años a investigar sobre el personaje del conquistador y nos entrega la que tal vez sea la primera biografía exhaustiva de Cortés, la que hace un mayor acopio de los testimonios de primera mano de los cronistas y desecha los dudosos o apócrifos para trazar un retrato crítico y...

El Cuerpo Nacional de Policía nos acompaña, en sus distintas denominaciones, desde 1824. Hombres y mujeres al servicio de todos los españoles que les ha llevado a ser considerados como una de las instituciones públicas más valoradas por los ciudadanos. José Eugenio Fernández Barallobre, inspector y uno de los historiadores policiales más reconocidos, acerca al lector esta monumental historia, profusamente ilustrada, de la policía española. Con gran minuciosidad y erudición construye un relato que abarca desde la creación de las diferentes unidades y su trayectoria histórica hasta ...

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