Las Alpujarras a principios del siglo XVII

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

Este libro recoge la historia de Vasconia, que engloba esencialmente los territorios de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, la Comunidad Foral de Navarra y el País Vasco francés (Labourd, Baja Navarra y País de Soule). Estructurado en tres apartados - el político-institucional; el demográfico y social; y el referido a la cultura y la vida cotidiana.

“Los tres mosqueteros existieron realmente y fue también real su duelo contra los guardias del cardenal Richelieu, en el que participó D’Artagnan, recién llegado a París. Los mosqueteros, además, tuvieron mucho que ver con el misterioso prisionero conocido como “el hombre de la máscara de hierro”, cuya identidad y cuyo trágico destino fueron más extraordinarios que todo lo que el gran Dumas llegó a imaginar”.

Since the airplane's invention in 1903, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands of have been produced. Drawing widely from that massive group, journalist Paolo Matricardi has fashioned a fascinating history of this deadly weapon of war. This large-format book traces the military aircraft from the early days of the 1911 Italy-Turkey war, when the first bomb was dropped from an airplane, to today's computerized, high-tech models with precision-guided missiles and laser targeting. Author Matricardi discusses such intriguing models as Lockheed's A-12 Oxcart...