Palestina, Crónica de la ocupación sionista

?A pesar de centrarse en aspectos muy concretos de la represión ?no se detiene el libro en cuestiones como la organización institucional, el funcionamiento interno de las checas o la utilización de métodos novedosos de tortura y asesinato en masa-, la obra reproduce de manera muy veraz lo que fue la vida en la zona de España controlada por el Frente Popular.? (Diario La Razón) ?Antes de proseguir con esta breve reseña decirles que no teman encontrarse un libro que busca la polémica entre sus hojas o que busque el escándalo por mostrar asuntos cruentos de un bando o de otros. Los...

Crash landing in San Sabestián, Spain in 1945, SS-Standartenführer Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (1906-1994) narrowly escaped death from his native Belgium and the Allied forces. Stripped of his Belgian citizenship and sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the German side of WWII, Degrelle lived the rest of his life in exile in Spain, harbored unofficially by Franco's government. During these forty-nine years in exile, Degrelle never expressed any regret for his place in the war, nor did he remain silent as fantastic narratives were woven about the events of the war and the...

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...