Historia universal

Mención del Premio Casa de las Américas 2013 en la categoría ensayo histórico-social, este libro analiza en profundidad, a partir de fuentes de primera mano, un tema de interés general para todos: los dos primeros años de tensas relaciones entre el Gobierno Revolucionario, instaurado en Cuba tras el derrocamiento del dictador Batista en enero de 1959, y la poderosa nación vecina negada a reconocer el triunfo revolucionario, reiterando acciones varias veces repetidas desde que, en 1868, Céspedes y los independentistas tomaron la decisión de liberar a Cuba del colonialismo español....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Esta es la historia de los Ritchie Boys, un grupo de unos dos mil jóvenes judíos alemanes que se habían refugiado en los Estados Unidos huyendo de las persecuciones nazis, a los que el ejército norteamericano entrenó en las tareas de interrogación de prisioneros de guerra y de recogida de información. Divididos en pequeños grupos de élite, se incorporaron a todas las unidades de combate norteamericanas: participaron en el desembarco en Normandía, avanzaron con Patton por Francia, participaron en la batalla de las Ardenas y descubrieron en el campo de Buchenwald todo el horror del...