La memoria, la historia, el olvido

Con los atentados del 11 de septiembre de 2001, Bin Laden y sus seguidores buscaban dar un giro al declive que había experimentado la yihad en los años noventa, tanto en Egipto como en Bosnia, en Arabia o en Argelia. Mediante este golpe al “enemigo lejano” estadounidense, esperaban unir de nuevo a sus partidarios y provocar el triunfo del islamismo radical en todo el mundo, en un momento en el que la segunda intifada sumía en el caos a israelíes y palestinos. Mientras tanto, en Washington, el influyente lobby neoconservador se replanteaba los intereses estratégicos tradicionales de...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Sirviéndose, como línea argumental, de la historia de los caballos de raza lipizana, Frank Westerman recorre la historia contemporánea de la Europa del siglo XX en este brillante y original ensayo, que se lee como una novela. Siguiendo el árbol genealógico y las vicisitudes de las yeguadas imperiales, el autor-narrador reconstruye la historia de cuatro generaciones de purasangres y de cómo consiguieron sobrevivir a las guerras napoleónicas, la caída del Imperio austrohúngaro, las dos guerras mundiales, los delirantes experimentos para mejorar las razas proyectados por Hitler, Stalin...