EL ALMA DEL VIENTO

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Fidel Castro's account of how in 74 days of battle in the summer of 1958, 300 revolutionary fighters—with the support of workers and farmers across Cuba—defeated Batista's 10,000-strong “final offensive.” Introduction, maps, photos, facsimiles of historical documents, illustrated glossary of weapons.

Antes de la Revolución de 1789, Francia conoció dos siglos convulsos. Este largo periodo de transformaciones tiene como hilo conductor el salón literario, donde la mujer es la figura central y la conversación, el eje civilizador. Benedetta Craveri hace en este libro, tan riguroso y sugerente como ameno y erudito, un periplo literario apasionante, repleto de voces, de anécdotas de la más variada índole, de dichos memorables, de retratos, de descripciones de ambientes y lugares, y reconstruye de este modo un mundo en el que términos como sociabilidad, ingenio o gracia expresan un ideal...

Un libro extraordinario que documenta y explica aquellos 1001 acontecimientos, momentos clave, encuentros decisivos, desastres naturales y memorables incidentes que, aún hoy en día, siguen presentes en la memoria colectiva.