Showing results for "Battle" in Latin America

The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history - 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of British arms and boosted the political fortunes of the Conservative government.

Juan Manuel Santos shares the lessons he learned about war and peace and how to build a successful negotiation process in the context of a nation which had all but resigned itself to war and the complexities of 21st-century international law and diplomacy. While Santos is clear that there is no handbook for making peace, he offers conflict-tested guidance on the critical parameters, conditions, and principles as well as rich detail on the innovations that made it possible for his nation to find common ground and a just solution. 

La Batalla por Tenochtitlan ofrece una panorámica de los acontecimientos que desencadenaron la caída del Imperio mexica y analiza bajo nueva luz las distintas fuentes historiográficas con las que suele reconstruirse el periodo, a tiempo que va resaltando sus distintos puntos ciegos.

"Días de sumisión recoge con mucha agudeza la infiltración comunista, desde La Habana, en Venezuela. También cómo Hugo Chávez se preparó minuciosamente para ser golpista. El libro es un triunfo. Una gran contribución intelectual y ética para Venezuela." (Jaime Bayly, periodista peruano)

"I began to daydream about the jungle...." On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras...