Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Esteban Montejo, who was born into slavery in Cuba, spending his youth on a sugar plantation. Later, as a runaway, he spent ten years in isolation in the forest, learning to live from the land and becoming half savage. After slavery was abolished, he came out of hiding got work once again in the fields, and eventually became a revolutionary.
Author
Language
Español
Description
Fidel Castro, una de las personalidades políticas más abrumadoras y maquiavélicas de su generación; un activo miembro delmovimiento guerrillero contra el dictador Batista; una fuerza de la naturaleza que colocó a su país en el centro de la geopolítica y que al, mismo tiempo, fusiló o encarceló a amigos y enemigos, según lo demandase la necesidad de mantener a toda costa su Revolución, será sin duda recordado por buena parte del pueblo...
Author
Language
English
Description
As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. This book reveals that...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The world is not what it seems. Behind the curtain of everyday existence, a vast and unholy Conspiracy is at work, twisting and deforming reality to pave the way for colonization by hideous extradimensional powers. Facing this onslaught is a laughably small resistance movement scattered across space and time - a handful of subversives known as The Invisibles. The silent guerrilla war has raged for millennia, shaping the very fabric of the unvierse....
Author
Language
English
Description
"While it's mindboggling to fathom anyone labeling a war "splendid," a high-ranking American official used that term to describe the Spanish American War in 1898. If any slivers of splendor existed in the grim brutalities of war, they were frequently on display in the remarkable actions of brave women who nursed their fallen warriors, reported conditions on the battlefields, fought on behalf of fervently-held causes, and protested questionable actions...
539) La campaña
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Baltasar Bustos, un estudiante de derecho y empleado de la Audiencia de Buenos Aires, se introduce en la recámara del presidente de esa Audiencia y reemplaza a su hijo recién nacido por un niño negro, hijo de una prostituta enferma y azotada públicamente. Horas más tarde, el edificio se incendia y deja irreconocible el cadáver del niño negro. El hijo legítimo es entregado a esclavas.--
An inflamed revolutionary democrat and the son of a wealthy...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request