Historia imprescindible para curiosos

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's...

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Las distintas aportaciones que forman este libro fueron presentadas en el Simposium Proyecto Humboldt 2002-2004. Las primeras intervenciones que recoge son una detallada exposición del proyecto y sus principales logros. Las ocho restantes son una muestra significativa de interesantes contribuciones al estudio de los viajeros científicos que pasaron por, o estuvieron en Canarias estudiando alguna rama específica de la ciencia y de las relaciones que el proyecto Humboldt tejió con diferentes instituciones europeas tomando como referente específico a las Islas Canarias.