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Whereas so many 20th-century Spanish histories begin with Franco and the devastating Civil War, Paul Preston's magisterial work begins in the late 19th century with Spain's collapse as a global power, especially reflected in its humiliating defeat in 1898 at the hands of the United States and its loss of colonial territory.

En el septuagésimo aniversario del estallido del trágico conflicto español, Paul Preston, hispanista de prestigio internacional, actualizó y amplió su estudio de la Guerra Civil teniendo en cuenta tanto las últimas investigaciones y polémicas historiográficas como abundante material inédito, ofreciendo su versión definitiva de La guerra civil española.

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by...

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence...

Un pueblo traicionado es una historia contemporánea de España escrita por un historiador británico que ama este país y que lleva cincuenta años estudiando su pasado. Nuestra rica y trágica historia permite muchas aproximaciones; este libro no cae en interpretaciones paternalistas o excepcionalistas, pero sigue las deficiencias de la clase política española entre la restauración borbónica de 1874 en la figura de Alfonso XII y el comienzo del reinado de su tataranieto Felipe VI en 2014.

The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain’s turbulent 20th century. From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco’s Nationalist...

El fallecimiento de Santiago Carrillo el 28 de octubre de 2012 puso fin a noventa y siete años vividos intensamente y en primera fila de la política. Hijo de Wenceslao Carrillo, dirigente socialista, su primer recuerdo era visitar a su padre en prisión. Aún adolescente participó en la huelga de 1934 y pasó por la cárcel, donde se radicalizó.

Un brillante ensayo sobre el bombardeo de Guernica que nos ayuda a entender mejor el fuego y las llamas y a distinguir el humo de las mentiras. La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: fue la primera ciudad "abierta" prácticamente arrasada por completo durante un bombardeo.

Reverend Peters is a shy, devout, hypersexual Presbyterian minister who’s haunted by the memory of a sexual encounter with a lost love. Elenora Swan is an attractive, uninhibited submissive. She’s also a sex-addicted, porno actress who’s on the run from her brutal Dom. When Rev Peters invites her into his church late one night, Elenora shows him her provocative sex videos. Sparks soon fly as they try to mold each other into the lover/Master/submissive slave of their dreams. Reverend Peters sexual obsession with Ms. Swan reaches an intense and disorienting new level when Elenora ...

Ten years have passed since Nicky Reilly took a homemade bomb into an Exeter restaurant and attempted to kill the people eating and drinking inside.Reilly was a Muslim convert who had travelled from Plymouth by bus earlier that day with the intention of bringing death and destruction to the busy shopping area.The extraordinary events were even more shocking because until it happened nobody really imagined that such an event could take place in the relatively quiet cathedral city in the south west of England.Over the succeeding days, weeks and months a major counter terrorism investigation was ...

La fidedigna narración del Golpe de Casado y de los últimos meses de la guerra civil española por Paul Preston, el más prestigioso hispanista de la actualidad.

Tricked by the promise of a scholarship to study in America, the pretty young Ju-Won is taken from her home in South Korea to Portland, Oregon. The manager of an illegal massage parlor, the Lucky Flower, expects her to give ‘happy endings’ to customers. With no lodging or money, and in debt, Ju-Won becomes a masseuse and sex worker at Lucky Flower. During a sexual encounter with a corrupt policeman she calls Nasty Eyes, she finds herself aroused when placed in bondage and dominated. She later enters into a submissive relationship with a wealthy real estate broker who buys Ju-Won’s ...

A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace. Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, here lays bare the complex web of financial and sexual excess that led to the hero’s vertiginous downfall. For decades, King Carlos was immensely...

After reporting a case of police brutality, Jim Jefferson’s life and marriage falls apart. He attempts to start his life over by opening up a bar called Obsessions that caters to Dominants and their submissives. Due to a horrible facial scar suffered as a child, he manages the club from the shadows and avoids all contact. Jefferson’s emotional and sexual life is reignited by Ms. Madsen, a stunning young woman, first introduced in The Reluctant Dom, Book One of the Obsession Series. She enters his club on the arm of her Dom, Charles Anderson and immediately attracts a crowd, wearing see-...

The pretty, well-endowed Veronica Wells works at Hooters in Tucson while saving money for nursing school. She and restaurant manager Richie Stone are soon dating, heading down the road to marriage when she gets into a serious car accident. While unconscious in the hospital, Veronica’s repressed erotic fantasies come vividly to life in the form of an elaborate fantasy with Dane Smith, her shy and handsome caregiver. In her sexual dream, Dane is a military officer, Veronica his willing submissive. Scenes of bondage, domination, public nudity, spanking, and various sexual encounters with ...

In the heat of summer in a Southern California seaside town, the spiritual and sensual worlds collide when Laura, a former drama student and lovely wife of a Christian minister becomes sexually attracted to Stephen, a slender spiritually conflicted security guard for submissive female performers at a secret underground theater, the Adam and Eve Club. When Laura meets Stephen at the club to persuade him to rejoin the Christian faith, she is drawn into the theater by a bright hypnotic light. She watches a pretty submissive performer on the stage engaging in a sexual act while being held in ...

Jeremy, a romantic aspiring writer of erotica, is admitted to Potomac Fields, a psychiatric hospital near Rockville, Maryland, after what appears to be a complete nervous breakdown. While mourning the recent death of his father and recovering from the betrayal and infidelity of his wife, Jeremy relates to no one at the hospital and carries around a laptop computer which he pretends to write stories in. Late at night in his hospital room, Jeremy actually writes an elaborate sexual fantasy novel called, “The Harem” which tells the story of three women, Cynthia, Sapphire and Evelyn, ...

Recovering from a self-inflicted wound, multimillionaire entrepreneur Phillipe Williamson feels insecure about the sexual connection with his lovely young submissive, Bella Lisa Mauricio and is unable to engage in intimacy with her without physical pain. After their intense and sensual week together, Phillipe and Bella Lisa both realize the nature of their relationship is changing. Afraid of the growing bond between them and confused about entering into a deeper emotional commitment to Phillipe due to their age difference, Bella Lisa meets Raoul Martinez, a young social worker, at her new ...

The 26 year old actor Edward James meets the lovely Elizabeth Rose when the two audition for roles in the kinky adult film The Monastery. The attraction between the two is immediately evident and Elizabeth convinces the eccentric director, Peter Farnsworth, to cast Edward in the lead male role, with her as the female star. The hot S&M scenes in The Monastery bring the two together as Dominant submissive lovers, and it’s no surprise to either one that the heat they generate on screen turns into a real time, off screen kink relationship. Before long, Edward realizes his fondest dream of ...

When the pretty, though spiritually conflicted Cassandra approaches Charles in a Chicago suburb, both lives are changed forever. Plagued by a lifetime of repressed sexual desire, Cassandra allows Charles to fondle her breasts in public, and he becomes instantly smitten with her. Despite her religious beliefs and impending marriage to Patrick, she confesses her desire to enter into a submissive/slave relationship. Charles agrees to a four-day contract to become her Dominant. Reluctant at first, Charles grows more confident in his role, sexually dominating and disciplining Cassandra with ...