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Commercial ships attacked in the middle of the night, airplanes descending from the clouds to attack submarines at the surface, shipwrecks, bandits, good times and bad....all of this and much more formed part of submarine warfare in World War II. Learn about it in this book combining historical rigor with the dramatic touch of the best war stories.

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NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY 'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary Review The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation, as men who decimated the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs ...

Conocido en Occidente como un «noble infiel», el gran sultán Saladino llevó a las fuerzas musulmanas a la reconquista de los reinos cruzados y recuperó Jerusalén para el Islam en 1178. Esta historia delimita así el papel de Saladino en la lucha entre el Islam y la Cristiandad durante el siglo XII. Siguiendo la vida del sultán desde la creación de los estados cruzados en Palestina, pasando por su victoria sobre los «francos» y acabando con las incidencias de la Tercera Cruzada, Möhring analiza los éxitos que alcanzó Saladino en la unión de los musulmanes del Próximo Oriente, su ...