Que No Te La Cuenten II: La Falsificación de la Historia

No hubo una Segunda guerra mundial, nos dice Max Hastings, autor de Armagedón, sino dos, completamente distintas: la que se desarrolló en Europa y la que tuvo por escenario el oriente de Asia y el Pacífico, con más de treinta millones de muertos. Este libro nos habla de esta “otra” guerra, no menos dramática y trascendental, pero hasta hoy demasiado olvidada. Basándose en un gran trabajo de documentación y en la recogida de testimonios de los supervivientes, Hastings recupera esta epopeya, en una sucesión de episodios que van desde la historia del “ejército olvidado” de los...

"Work provides not only a thoughtful analysis of the ayuntamiento process but also an important examination of Mexico City's development during those years. Major contribution to the history of 'la capital' is also of interest for the historiography of emerging interest in democratic principles in late fin-de-siècle Mexico"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...