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El 18 de junio de 1815 tres ejércitos –Francia, Gran Bretaña y Prusia- descendían por un tranquilo valle cercano a Bruselas en dirección a un pequeño pueblo: Waterloo. Durante los tres días previos las tropas francesas habían vencido a los prusianos en Ligny y combatido contra los británicos en Quatre-Bras. Los aliados planeaban la retirada. Nadie esperaba que en Waterloo se fuese a librar la batalla más famosa de la historia, aquélla que había de marcar el destino de toda Europa. En su primera obra de no ficción, Bernard Cornwell combina sus cualidades de narrador con una...

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Given P. Naster's numismatic, art historical, and archaeological background, and his expertise in Classical and Ancient Near Eastern subjects, the presentations to his 'Festschrift' cover a broad thematic and temporal span. The papers of volume II may be divided into the following general categories: philology (including general, Greek/Latin, Egyptian, South Arabian, Hebrew, Persian), Assyriology, Art History, Egyptology, and Anthropology, History, Hittite/Anatolian studies, Persian religion, and historical geography. Obviously, some studies will cover more than one definitive area.

One of each three Afghans is dead, in the exile or living in a field of refugees, and the world stays completely indifferent. From the instant one arrives to Peshawar one is wrapped by Afghanistan, its enormity, the horror and the sadness. Each Afghan that you know, be a refugee or a muyahid, is a tragedy; each one is a request: Help us, help us!, writes Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize of Literature 2007.