Books like Historia de Espan a by Fe Bajo Alvarez

Paul Kennedy’s scholarship charts how the rise and fall of great powers over five centuries is tied to the costs of military dominance and economic resources, offering a crucial framework for understanding today’s global balance of power.

**Reseñas**: «Arturo Pérez-Reverte sabe cómo retener al lector a cada vuelta de página.» (*The New York Times Book Review*) «Arturo Pérez-Reverte consigue mantener sin aliento al lector.» (*Corriere della Sera*) «No solo es un espléndido narrador. También maneja con pericia diferentes géneros.» (*El Mundo*) «Hay un escritor español que se parece al mejor Spielberg más Umberto Eco. Se llama Arturo-Pérez-Reverte.» (*La Repubblica*) «Su sabiduría narrativa, tan bien construida siempre, tan exhaustivamente detallada, documentada y estructurada, hasta el punto de que, frente a todo ello, la historia real resulta más endeble y a veces hasta tópica.» (*Rafael Conte*) «Su estilo elegante se combina con un gran manejo de la lengua española. Pérez-Reverte es un maestro.» (*La Stampa*) «Pérez-Reverte tiene un talento endiablado y un sólido oficio.» (*Avant-Critique*) «Un repaso equidistante por los tres años de contienda [...] donde defiende la importancia de la memoria y la necesidad de no olvidar lo que fueron aquellos tres años de barbarie.» (Antonio Lucas, *El Mundo*, sobre *La guerra civil contada a los jóvenes*) «La capacidad de síntesis y la ecuanimidad crítica del autor abonan un trabajo de lectura obligatoria.» (Sergio Vila-SanJuán, *La Vanguardia*, sobre *La guerra civil contada a los jóvenes*)

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil -- at reduced prices, and on credit. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. For three crucial years in the 1930s the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Hochschild tells stories of ordinary people drawn into the conflict; provides a history of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; and shows how the war was perceived in the United States through a pair of rival New York Times reporters, one sympathetic to Franco's Nationalist cause and the other to the Republican cause.