The Finest Hours of The Second World War

From the beginning of the Second World War the sea became a vitally important scene of conflict. Great Britain relied on receiving supplies by sea and, therefore, a total blockade of the United Kingdom was one the main objectives of Hitler’s Germany. The British government was forced to maintain a strategy of antisubmarine warfare throughout the conflict, while the Royal Navy sought to interrupt the Third Reich’s maritime traffic. In these circumstances the submarine became an important weapon of war. Headed by Karl Dönitz, who would later succeed Hitler as Head of State, the German...

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"Fue hacia fines de 1826 cuando el ministro de la guerra, Gómez Pedraza, pudo hacer maniobrar, en la plaza de armas de México, el primer batallón completamente armado y equipado según el gusto moderno o el modelo francés". Así califica Claudio Linati, en su libro Costumes Civils, Militaires et Religieux du Mexique, la organización del ejército a cinco años del nacimiento de México, como país independiente. Esa observación autoriza preguntar sobre el papel que jugó francés" -hombres, ideas, mercancías y capitales- en la modernización del país, y a indagar su contribución en...

Title: Archivo mexicano. Documentos para la historia de Mexico. (Sumario de la residencia tomada á D. Fernando Cortes, gobernador y capitan general de la N. E. y á otros gobernadores y officiales de la misma. Paleografiado del original por el Lic. Ignacio Lopez Rayon.). Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and...

La vinculaci n hist rica de M xico y los Estados Unidos ha motivado una serie de interpretaciones no siempre afortunadas ni objetivas. Schumacher incluye una serie de excelentes ensayos de especialistas que ofrecen un renovado tratamiento de los or genes de las relaciones entre los dos pa ses, la colonizaci n, las migraciones y el racismo, y la inevitable interdependencia cultural.