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Tiergarten Berlín 1945
A finales de abril de 1945, mientras las tropas del Ejército Rojo se acercan a Berlín para librar la batalla final contra la Alemania nazi, los animales del Tiergarten, el zoológico de la ciudad, perciben en el aire la tragedia. Hombres y animales comparten un mundo librado al caos y la angustia en (...)
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The Wright Flyers 1899-1916. The kites, gliders, and aircraft that launched the Air Age
Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight. But their success over the cold and windswept (...)
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Tiberio Graco
Recuerda que eres mortal o Roma te lo hará pagar . Roma, mediados del siglo II a. C. El pequeño Tiberio Sempronio Graco empieza a conocer el convulso mundo en el que vive: la feroz pugna por el poder en el seno de la nobleza romana, ávida de prebendas y gloria; la cada vez más ancha fractura entre (...)
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Three Weeks in November: A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847
The political phenomenon known as the Springtime of the Nations' swept through Europe in 1848, toppling thrones, forcing old autocratic regimes to grant constitutions to the people and bringing street fighting and large scale campaigns to cities and states across the continent. What is not (...)
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Thor Ballistic Missile : The United States and the United Kingdom in Partnership
In the mid-1950s faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational. Intense inter-service rivalry followed before the US Air Force gained the upper hand in deploying the missile. The (...)
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