Ecos de la conquista

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Manuel Fernández Álvarez nos acerca en esta obra a la figura de Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, más conocido en la Historia como el Gran Duque de Alba. Sus avatares, sus sentimientos, sus aciertos y desaciertos al servicio de dos monarcas que marcaron nuestra historia, Carlos V y Felipe II. Un contexto privilegiado, la España imperial del siglo XVI, en el que Alba desempeña uno de los principales y más controvertidos papeles de la época.

El nazismo postuló que todos aquellos que no fueran arios no eran humanos y serían tratados como animales.? En los campos de concentración nazis, cientos de fieles guar-dianas, con la sangre «limpia», se convirtieron en las torturadoras y asesinas más despiadadas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. No son tan conocidas como Hitler, Himmler o Goebbels pero la historia más siniestra de la humanidad tiene su hueco para estas auténticas arpías, las caras inhumanas que tantas víctimas dejaron tras de sí, como el caso de Hermine Braunsteiner, La Yegua de Majdanek, que disfrutaba dando coces en ...