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El historiador Hugh Ambrose ahonda en la experiencia de la miniserie televisiva de HBO retransmitida en Canal +, The Pacific, y desvela las odiseas entrelazadas de cuatro marines y un piloto de portaaviones de la Armada. La inmediatez de la primera persona y la perspectiva histórica dan como resultado una mezcla de lo más convincente. Sidney C. Philips, un tranquilo adolescente de Alabama, se alista con un colega en la Marina. «Manila» John Basilone, hijo de inmigrantes italianos, encuentra la felicidad en la vida azarosa de los marines. Eugene B. Sledge observa cómo su mejor amigo y su...

Che finds himself in Guatemala during a U.S.-inspired coup and also describes his first encounter with Fidel Castro, in the first U.S. Spanish edition of Guevara's diary from his second journey through Latin America.

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"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--