El Deseo De Vivir

Instead of Forgetting rebuilds the intertwined memory of three families, the Ynsa's, the Pine's and the Bilbao's between 1872 and 1942. These years are not at random, the first one marks the start of the third Spanish Carlist War, after that, the establishment of the First Spanish Republic, and the second one, the strengthening of the Franco regime. With the backdrop of the Restoration, the monarchy of Alfonso the XIII, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Republic and the civil war, the reader follows little and great stories of characters, ancestors of the authors, that reflect a unique ...

Las tres grandes figuras literarias de la «Era del Jazz» fueron: Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway y Edna St. Vincent Millay; pero si bien Fitzgerald y Hemingway mantuvieron su fama con el paso de los años, la autora norteamericana ha quedado en el olvido hasta resultar hoy una perfecta desconocida.

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...

Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger. Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At one point, he even proposed marriage. In Frank & Marilyn, we follow Sinatra and Monroe from one explosive relationship to another, their marriages and love affairs...