Las mariposas de Madrid. Los narradores italianos y la guerra civil española

Santiago Santa Cruz, el Comandante Santiago, médico de profesión, relata su experiencia guerrillera en la Organización del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA) de Guatemala, y luego en el Frente Unitario de la Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), a partir de sus libretas de campaña y sus recuerdos personales. El resultado es una detallada historia político-militar del movimiento revolucionario en Guatemala de 1980 a 2001, fechas que abarcan su apogeo y su declive, desde el momento que sigue al triunfo de la Revolución sandinista en Nicaragua hasta la firma de los acuerdos de paz.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo y su tiempo. Introducción. Bibliografía. Documentación gráfica. Nota previa. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (Selección). Documentos y juicios críticos. Orientaciones para el estudio de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...