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We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

Este libro acerca al lector a la historia de la Convalecencia de Murcia, una institución fundada por el chantre Andrés de Rivera en 1779 con el propósito de que los enfermos del Hospital de San Juan de Dios, una vez curados, pudieran mantenerse unos días con un régimen reconstituyente que les permitiera recobrar fuerzas y salir restablecidos, evitando las recaídas producidas por debilidad. En sus páginas se recogen los numerosos avatares vividos por este establecimiento de carácter benéfico-asistencial: el pleito con la Orden de San Juan de Dios por la propiedad y...

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Uno de los eventos mas importantes en la historia de la aviacion es aun desconocido por muchos, debido al encubrimiento de los paises que lo protagonizaron, los Estados Unidos y la Union Sovietica. Ocurrio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Fria que le siguio, y tuvo serias consecuencias sobre la politica internacional. Caido del cielo recrea como el dictador de la Union Sovietica, Joseph Stalin, hizo una copia exacta del B-29 norteamericano --bombardero estrategico superpesado de largo alcance-- y lo convirtio en el TU-4 sovietico. Es un relato lleno de accion e intriga, donde...