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Sin duda, el referente máximo de la extinta Unión Soviética. De férrea mano, dirigió la construcción del socialismo en la URSS, que pasó de ser un país rural a una potencia industrial, elevando el nivel de vida de la población. En contraparte, dirigió un régimen represivo de la población, caracterizado por la presencia de campos de trabajo, campañas de represión política, y deportaciones.

One morning, while shaving, the comedian Mark Steel noticed that one side of his neck seemed larger than the other. After a whistlestop tour of assorted medical professionals, a consultant delivered the ominous words that would define the next months of his life: ‘I’m afraid it’s not good news, Mr Steel’. A frank and funny diary of one man’s rather trying year, this is an unforgettable and uplifting story of getting ill, getting on with it, and getting better.

This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built...