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The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the (...)

In wartime London, the Simmonds family takes in a Jewish refugee from Warsaw named Dovidl, who is also a violin prodigy, and young Martin Simmonds and Dovidl become fast friends. When Dovidl loses his entire family in the camps, his adoptive father, a music impresario, arranges a debut for him--but (...)

Julio Verne, como miembro de la Sociedad de Geografía de París, aprovecha sus amplios conocimientos documentando los derroteros marinos en La Esfinge de los Hielos. Pero Verne no solo vierte su rica fantasía en esta novela, sino que rinde homenaje a su admirado colega: Edgar Allan Poe, al continuar (...)