Las mujeres en la guerra

María Josefa Segovia (1891-1957) es una de esas mujeres que, inmersas en su tiempo y proyectadas hacia el nuestro, llegaron a hacer historia. “Los destinos de la mujer culta y su influencia en la sociedad moderna son ahora mismo algo tan grande como impreciso”, escribió don Pedro Poveda en 1931. En su escuela, con creatividad, audacia y discreción María Josefa fue haciendo concreto un modo de ser y de actuar, inédito en su tiempo, algo más común en el nuestro, pero todavía con necesidad de volver los ojos hacia estas personas cuya biografía sigue suscitando admiración y...

THOMAS MERTON. The man and his interior life - The work of Thomas Merton gives us the keys to solve our own contradictions that were also his: a life of faith and doubts, solitude and the necessity to live for others, the presence of God and his absence, poverty and the necessity of economic stability

Pombo: a man of Che's guerrilla is a never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo - a member of Guevara's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of an epic chapter in the history of the Americas illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic ...

The memoir of Jaycee Dugard who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years old, and was missing for over 18 years before her reappearance in 2009.