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Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated. Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality but in reality was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval, wars between the Allies and the Nazis. The story is not, however, a conventional tale of World War II in that barely a shot was fired or a bomb dropped. Instead, it is a gripping tale of intrigue, betrayal, opportunism, and double-dealing....

Occupying a small corner of Spain and France, the Basque people truly believe they should live in their own private country - and in this engaging history, best-selling author Mark Kurlansky explains why.

In 1474, a 23-year-old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance.

La Primera República, 1873-1874, que acabó con el pronunciamiento de Martínez Campos y la restauración borbónica, y la Segunda República, de abril de 1931 hasta el inicio de la dictadura franquista, son dos épocas históricas vinculadas entre sí que guardan muchas de las claves para entender e interpretar nuestro presente ya que fundamentos ideológicos de la política actual tienen muchas de sus raíces en aquellos sucesos que marcaron definitivamente unos profundos cambios sociales.