La matanza de Katyn

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi sul Mediterraneo svoltosi a Genova il 9-10 dicembre 2004. Nell'anno in cui Genova è stata nominata capitale europea della cultura, il convegno discute in tre sezioni – relitti, commerci ed arti figurative – i più recenti risultati degli scavi subacquei e non, riguardanti il triangolo occidentale del Mediterraneo da Populonia alla Spagna. Alcune relazioni presentano scavi giunti all’attenzione del grande pubblico, come quelli delle navi di Pisa-S.Rossore o della metropolitana di Napoli; ma tutti riflettono l’interesse per gli uomini che...

?Breve Historia de Cleopatra sorprende por la gran utilización de fuentes y materiales, muchas veces novedosos, que hacen a esta obra única en su género. Como ya he indicado antes el autor hace un gran trabajo de síntesis no cayendo en trabajo partidistas que han estudiado solamente la figura de la reina, sus cotilleos más sabrosos o maquinaciones políticas.? (Blog Historia con minúsculas) ?Miguel Ángel Novillo (Madrid, 1981) explica que la personalidad de la reina cautivó a hombres de la talla de Julio César o Marco Antonio para salvar a Egipto de la dominación romana. «El reto...

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