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Isidre Ambrós, corresponsal de La Vanguardia en Pekín y Hong Kong durante una década, se sumerge en una sociedad muy reservada ante los extranjeros, como es la china, para narrar el perfil menos conocido del pais que aspira a desbancar a Estados Unidos del liderazgo planetario. A través de sus viajes, cual Marco Polo del siglo XXI, por toda la vasta geografía china, conversa con ciudadanos de toda condición que nos ayudan a comprender la evolución y el día a día de una sociedad de un funcionamiento muy distinto a la nuestra: al mismo tiempo que está controlada férreamente por el...

¿Y si Indalecio Prieto se hubiese convertido en presidente del Gobierno en mayo de 1936? ¿Y si España hubiese entrado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial o ETA no hubiese matado a Carrero Blanco? Los momentos más impredecibles, inciertos e inquietantes de la historia contemporánea de España nunca se han visto sometidos a un diagnóstico contrafactual. Sin embargo, este tipo de análisis ofrece una de las formas más estimulantes de reivindicar y revivir la historia. Con inigualable maestría, historiadores de la talla de José Álvarez Junco, Santos Juliá, Javier Tusell, Charles Powell, Pablo ...

The Project was born when Professor Omer Bartov began to question his Israeli family on their European origins. The answers led him to a long exploration of places, archives, passages, books, monuments, and memories of the most brutal chapter in the history of the twentieth century. The genocide perpetrated by the Nazi's and their accomplices in Ukraine was not a methodical industrial activity, but rather an endless succession of almost intimately crafted killings. Some responsible even benefitted politically or economically. The echoes of what happened arrive today as small keys that help us ...

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