Historia Militar de Colombia 1960-2018 Tomo I

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

Durante el duro período de la guerra civil española y los primeros años de la desoladora posguerra, muchas personas desconocidas, españoles pero también extranjeros, escribieron cartas cuyo destinatario último era Francisco Franco. Las razones que propiciaron estos textos epistolares fueron muy diversas, pero todos ellos poseen un rasgo común: reflejan el clima de miseria moral y material que asoló España durante el conflicto bélico y la época inmediatamente posterior. Una obra reveladora que no solo ofrece al público general una serie de valiosos documentos históricos a los que...

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