La revolución rusa

Los textos que componen el libro que el lector tiene en sus manos exponen de manera cruda las intimidades en el ejercicio de la guerra, desde la sensibilidad extrema de un soldado convertido en periodista, quien vivió en carne propia la mutilación de uno de sus miembros inferiores al caer en un campo minado. Muy pocas veces se tiene la oportunidad de tener un documento que dé cuenta de las angustias, miedos y sensaciones que afloran en la mente y en el cuerpo de un soldado que, después de caminar 60 kilómetros, tiene que repeler un hostigamiento guerrillero o, a sangre y fuego, recuperar ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Since the airplane's invention in 1903, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands of have been produced. Drawing widely from that massive group, journalist Paolo Matricardi has fashioned a fascinating history of this deadly weapon of war. This large-format book traces the military aircraft from the early days of the 1911 Italy-Turkey war, when the first bomb was dropped from an airplane, to today's computerized, high-tech models with precision-guided missiles and laser targeting. Author Matricardi discusses such intriguing models as Lockheed's A-12 Oxcart...