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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.

Paul Preston emprende en esta obra el reto más atractivo para cualquier historiador: condensar su objeto de investigación en un manejable libro, reflejo de tantos años de experiencia. Con una concisión abrumadora, estas páginas exponen la historia del siglo XX en España, con el tema subyacente del desajuste entre una población deseosa de progresar y unas elites que no cesan de bloquear sus intentos.

The Spanish military coup of 1936 was launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers, clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened. However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent ‘Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy’.

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 ...

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 institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly during the Primo de Rivera and Franco dictatorships, grotesque and shameless corruption went hand-in-hand with inept policies that prolonged Spain’s economic backwardness well into the 1950s.

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.

It’s 2087. When Emily Williams, a good-hearted and attractive woman, is told to report to the CEO’s office for her exit interview, rather than fire her, Mr. Miller, CEO of a tech firm specializing in artificial intelligence, offers Emily a job as his personal secretary. Oddly, she’s been having indecent sexual thoughts about the CEO. Now, suddenly, her sexual fantasies are becoming a reality! With the aid of an Obedience Serum, Emily becomes Mr. Miller’s mistress and a sexual plaything for the company. She’s renamed Pretty Tits, and engages in repeated oral, anal and vaginal sex, ...

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, ...

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.

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-...

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.

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 ...

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 regime.

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 ...

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 ...

In need of sanctuary after a personal trauma, a pretty Catholic woman, Deborah D’Bennedeto, applies to be accepted as a nun at an historic California mission. A year later, a sexually tormented Priest, Father Joseph, passes a love note to her in the chapel, which gives instructions on a plan to escape from the Mission with him that night. Confused and upset, Dorothy shows the note to the Mother Superior. During an investigation a fictitious erotic manuscript written by Father Joseph is discovered. The Bishop of the Mission asks Dorothy to read the manuscript to determine its truth. The ...

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 ...