Mirrors and Echoes

Narra el viaje a los orígenes de María de las Mercedes de Santa Cruz y Montalvo, condesa de Merlín, cubana culta, discreta con talento musical y literario, una mujer pionera por muchos motivos.

Con motivo de la publicación de Los mitos de la guerra civil, y a falta, según parece, de mejores argumentos, el pasado de Pío Moa ha sido atacado y desvirtuado profusamente en la prensa. Seguramente este libro será útil para restablecer una visión más equilibrada. Se trata de un testimonio de una época crucial en nuestro pasado aún reciente. Moa fue uno de los dirigentes del PCE(r)-Grapo, que intentó empujar en un sentido revolucionario la historia de España, y esa experiencia queda aquí reflejada con nitidez, una claridad que no encontramos a menudo cuando abordamos las memorias ...

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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...