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eBook Interactivo. El siglo XVIII coincide con la gran explosión cultural europea que se conoce habitualmente como Ilustración, y cuyo corazón reside indudablemente en Francia. La Ilustración es un fenómeno cultural de corte político y literario, pero también se proyecta con cierta originalidad...

Hailed by General Sir Ian Hamilton as «a slashing man of action», Aylmer Hunter-Weston began the Great War as one of the British Army’s rising stars. By its close, his reputation was very different. Branded by some contemporaries as a «butcher» and a «mountebank», he has also been criticised...

People eat and drink very differently throughout their life. Each stage has diets with specific ingredients, preparations, palates, meanings and settings. Moreover, physicians, authorities and general observers have particular views on what and how to eat according to age. All this has changed frequently...

Allied forces under the command of American General Dwight Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery are stationed along 80 miles of the Normandy coast. 13,000 warplanes are ready to support one of the greatest military operations. By the end of that day, the Allies will successfully storm all five...

Una obra definitiva y magistral de una etapa determinante de la historia de Europa. En 1945 Europa se encontraba en sus momentos más bajos. Gran parte del continente estaba devastado por la guerra, los asesinatos en masa, los bombardeos y el caos. Amplias zonas de Europa del Este empezaban...

Se preguntarán con mucha razón por qué, de no mediar una especie de apuesta, iba yo a aceptar el encargo de escribir siquiera un ensayo popular sobre la historia de Inglaterra, si no puedo invocar ningún tipo de erudición especializada y no soy más que una persona corriente. La respuesta es...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Neuzeit, Absolutismus, Industrialisierung, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Historisches Seminar ), Veranstaltung: Proseminar: England zwischen Revolution und Restauration 1640/42-1660, 20 Quellen im...

"Mein Ziel war es", schreibt Orlando Figes im Vorwort, "das Chaos dieser Jahre aufzuzeigen, wie es gewöhnliche Frauen und Männer empfunden haben müssen. Ich habe versucht, die Revolution nicht als einen Aufmarsch abstrakter gesellschaftlicher Kräfte und Ideologien vorzuführen,...

The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, lit. The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.This work survived only in one single manuscript that was found in Hersfeld Abbey, Holy...

The destruction of a town, and the creation of a masterpiece--On April 26, 1937, in the late afternoon of a busy market day in the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain, the German Luftwaffe began the relentless bombing and machine-gunning of buildings and villagers at the request of General Francisco...

A HISTORY OF FIVE YEARS OF SECRET WARFARE AGAINST THE NAZI OCCUPATION Students were the first to resist Entire cities went on strike All the Danish population worked to save their Jewish countrymen V-2 component factories were destroyed in pitched battles General Montgomery described the Danish Resistance...

Two correspondents in Tokyo describe, breezily and none too reverently, various phases of the American occupation of Japan, including MacArthur’s efforts to lay a basis for democratic government. They do not impugn the General’s motives, but they feel that he is relying on the very people who backstopped Japanese expansionism before and are preparing to do it again.

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies, its chances of survival apparently nil. By late November Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina - the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety...

Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on The Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed...