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An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the period from the fall of ...

Lorenzo de Zavala fue uno de los participantes más enigmáticos en la configuración del México independiente y una de las figuras más polémicas del siglo XIX mexicano. Defendió la independencia de México pero acabó como vicepresidente de la efímera República de Texas, renunciando a su nacionalidad.

De la boca de los protagonistas o de sus familiares y sirviéndose de una mezcla de narración literaria y de reconstrucción histórica, el periodista Fernando Berlín recupera en este libro los dramáticos y emotivos relatos nunca antes revelados de una docena de hombres y mujeres españoles que, de forma modesta y desinteresada, consiguieron salvar la vida de algunos de sus compatriotas del otro bando durante la guerra civil. Una visión completamente distinta de la guerra.