Cristóbal Colón y Su Detractor el Marqués de Dos Fuentes (Don Fernando Antón del Olmet) (Classic Reprint)

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Guerra secreta conta a história inédita de uma campanha sombria que anulou as fronteiras entre soldados e espiões e deu precedentes para que novos conflitos ocorressem em todo o mundo. Uma guerra ocasionada pela transformação – ou, na verdade, uma espécie de restauração – da Agência Central de Inteligência americana. Uma verdadeira caçada humana, com drones armados e assassinatos direcionados. O vencedor do Pulitzer Mark Mazzetti descreve, com minúcia, um elenco impressionante de personagens envolvidos nessa guerra secreta, reconstruindo diálogos e fornecendo detalhes sobre...

El 20 de noviembre de 1820, el barco ballenero Essex es atacado por un cachalote mientras navega por el Pacífico. La tripulación se refugia en botes salvavidas. Es entonces cuando empieza la tragedia: con una cantidad limitada de víveres y agua, veinte hombres pondrán a prueba su coraje en una lucha despiadada por la vida en medio del océano. Meses después, los ma-rineros de un barco divisan un bote a la deriva en las costas de América del Sur. Al acercarse, no pueden creer lo que ven sus ojos: los tripulantes del Essex han llega do a límites inimaginables en su lucha por sobrevivir....

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