Los secretos del Congreso

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...

En este estudio se analiza la situación de los caminos y ciudades andaluzas a través de las memorias de un amplísimo repertorio de viajeros que deambularon por sus tierras desde las primeras décadas del siglo XVIII, especialmente durante los gobiernos de Carlos III y Carlos IV, hasta la Guerra de la Independencia.

Una heroína, madre y novia recorre la historia de su familia a lo largo de tres generaciones, acogiendo su herencia, mientras se encuentra en una épica lucha por sobrevivir entre el ocaso de la época campesina y un Milán de clase obrera en plena guerra, inmerso en apocalípticos bombardeos aéreos y siniestras sirenas de alarma. La protagonista relata la angustia y el horror de la guerra, afrontando con dolor y coraje las pérdidas y la muerte, pero teniendo la determinación de construir un futuro para ella y su pequeña hija, así como la certeza de que regresará su inolvidable héroe, ...

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