Nos robaron la juventud tells the stories of the “biberones” who fought on the Ebro, of the volunteers who enlisted as teenagers (in both the Republican and Franco’s armies), of those who survived and (some) continued their fight in World War II, of those who were imprisoned and of those who died on the battlefield.
(Marco Polo’s real story)
Marco Polo’s book inspired Christopher Columbus on his journey to the Americas. But his life and history are not as well-known as it should be… until now.
Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, writer and explorer known thanks to his books where he reveals to the Europeans the wealth and the real size of China.
In this book you will get know the real history of Marco Polo in the two crucial moments of his life. On the one hand, the time during his trip, the stay at the court of Kublai Khan and his return. And on the other, the first days of the luxurious imprisonment in the castle of San Angelo after being defeated in the battle of Curzola (1298), while he still didn’t know very well where he was, being prisoner both of the Genoese and of his own memory.
Did you ever feel that someone was following you? Did you ever had the feeling of having already experienced the present situation? Amelia and Antonia also felt that and, once you start reading Hijos de Berlín, you will never forget their names.
Germany 1932, Hitler is about to reach the power. Berlín is a beehive of emotions and plots.
Barcelona 1962, under the Francoist system, the murder of Amelia took place. A detective not only will have to catch the murderer but also to establish the connection between this crime and the German capital.
An epic story based in the War of Succession that takes places in the little village of Cardona and its mysterious salt mines.
It all begins when Miquel’s family is murdered by Felipe’s army during a slaughter at the village. Miquel is saved by his sister and hidden in the woods, but he will no longer be the kind and humble man he used to be: he will become savage and heartless looking for revenge. The Wolf of Cardona will be the Bourbons’ worst nightmare.
[I could have saved Lorca]
A story about memory and regret, of how everything could have been, but never was.
“I could have saved Lorca.” I heard my grandfather mutter this phrase when I was a child. He was from Granada, his name was Manuel Bonilla Jimenez and he was a quiet man. My parents left me with him some weekends. One day he showed me a gun … I knew that he had fought in the Civil War. Granada … García Lorca … Civil War … It rang a bell, but … what did my silent grandfather have to do with all that? What was a quiet man hiding with his “I could have saves Lorca”? That’s the begining a journey that will tear several veils of a crucial trance of the history of Spain and post-war Catalonia, a trip full of fortuitous encounters, personal events, unique findings, illuminating interviews with glimpses of Dalí, Buñuel and other personalities, various stumbles and discoveries in the human geography of yesterday’s Andalusia and today’s Catalonia that will create an intriguing plot that precipitates the history of Spain in a vibrant collective tale that will resonate in the familiar and personal depths of thousands of readers