Crete. The Battle and the Resistance
In May 1941, after invading Greece and Yugoslavia, Hitler ordered to conquer Crete, a key island to control the eastern Mediterranean; it was like having a large aircraft carrier, which allowed to control...
History, Contemporary
Lawrence and the Arabs
The figure of the protagonist, popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, has aroused great interest for decades. Here is a glimpse of his life and his work in the service of the British army in the Middle East...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
The author, a Washington Post journalist, has written other essays on the communist world. In this one she studies the years 1944-1956; In World War II, Stalin takes steps thinking about the future; the...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A story about the hundred years of war against the Palestinians, told by the leading American historian of the Middle East through crucial events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of...
Israel: a concise history of a nation reborn
This brief history of the state of Israel is an excellent introduction. It doesn't avoid the controversies of Israel's founding and has a lot of sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. However, it is...
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Rebecca Donner begins the book with this sentence: "This is a work of nonfiction. It is the biography of Mildred Harnack who, as the subtitle says, is an American in the German resistance against Hitler....
Not yet the light
Josef Pieper, philosopher and Catholic, author of numerous successful books, as Rafael Alvira says in the prologue is the most profound interpreter of the 'normal' life and the most normal interpreter of...
Blood Brothers
Elias Chacour is a Palestinian Arab Israeli priest, Bishop of Galilee of the Melkite Catholic Church. He has been an important voice in promoting peace in the region. He has won several international awards...
The forest Passage
Ernst Jünger was a specialist of the First World War, the interwar period, the Second World War and also the post-war period that divided the world into two blocs and triggered the Cold War. He lived...
Killers of the flower moon
After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage Nation (Oklahoma) rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be...