Este libro, escrito por uno de los grandes
historiadores españoles, conjuga el deseo personal de perfilar la imagen de una
España “madre de muchos pueblos” y la aspiración del docente que querría
transmitir esa imagen a un público amplio.
“Escribo estas páginas -afirma el autor- con cierto
aire de testamento literario, para responder a una demanda imperiosa, para
colaborar en una tarea de renovada actualidad”, la de llenar “el vacío que deja
la ausencia de una auténtica enseñanza histórica de los actuales planes de
enseñanza obligatoria”.
“Rechazo que la Historia tenga que servir para algo
que no sea satisfacer la curiosidad del ser humano, uno de sus anhelos más
genuinos.
Defiendo una personalidad propia de la Historia, y la de España no es algo que
tenga que servir de explicación a lo que ocurre hoy en el país”.
ÍNDICE
Nota preliminar, por María Victoria López-Cordón. - Prólogo
a la segunda edición, por John Elliot. - A guisa de prólogo. - Capítulo I. Los
orígenes. La romanización. España visigoda. - Capítulo II. Conquista y
Reconquista. - Capítulo III. La España de las tres culturas. - Capítulo IV. La
España de los Reyes Católicos. - Capítulo V. El gran siglo. - Capítulo VI. el
marco político del siglo XVII español. - Capítulo VII. España y sus Indias. - Capítulo
VIII. El cambio dinástico y la Ilustración. - Capítulo IX. Pinceladas sueltas
sobre la sociedad española en la Edad Moderna. - Capítulo X. Una era
conflictiva. - Capítulo XI. Revolución y Restauración. - Capítulo XII. El
reinado de Alfonso XIII. - Capítulo XIII. La Segunda República y la Guerra
Civil. - Capítulo XIV. El franquismo. - Mapas. - Índice de nombres.
An
FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years
Peter J. Lapp - Kelly Kennedy
Post
Hill Press, New York (USA), 2023
272 pp.
ISBN-10:163758959X
27,70 euros
As a spy
prepared to give away America’s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI
agent raced to catch her.
U.S. government officials knew they had a spy.
But it never occurred to them it was a woman―and certainly not a superstar
Defense Intelligence Agency employee known as “the Queen of Cuba.” Ana Montes
had spent seventeen years spying for the Cubans. She had been raised in a
patriotic Puerto Rican household: Her father, a psychiatrist, was a former
colonel in the U.S. Army. Her sister worked as a translator for the FBI and
helped break up a ring of Cuban spies in Miami. Her brother was also a loyal
FBI agent. Montes impressed her bosses, but in secret, spent her breaks
memorizing top secret documents before sending them to the Cuban government.
She received no payment, even as one of her missives could have brought her the
death penalty. She also listened to anxiety-relief tapes, took medication, and
saw a psychiatrist. She dreamed of a normal life where she could work a job she
enjoyed. She dreamed of getting married, and even had a man in mind: a defense
analyst on the Cuba account for Southern Command. He had no idea that, three
times a week, Montes pulled a short-wave radio from her closet and received
encrypted messages from Cuba. After the 9/11 attacks, Cuba wanted Montes to
continue her work. They couldn’t know the FBI was already on to her. Retired
FBI agent Peter J. Lapp explains the clues―including never-released
information―that led their team to catch one of the United States’ most
dangerous spies.
Peter J. Lapp retired as a
special agent for the FBI after twenty-two years either investigating or
managing counterintelligence investigations involving Cuba, Russia, and China.
Before joining the FBI, he worked as a police officer in the Coatesville and
West Whiteland police departments in Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s in
criminal justice at West Chester University and his master’s in criminal
justice at St. Joseph’s University. He served several years in the Army
National Guard as an infantry officer. After retiring from the FBI, Lapp
founded an independent consulting firm and conducts keynote speaking to help
organizations mature their insider-risk programs. Lapp now lives in Loudoun
County, Virginia, and performs on the winery circuit as a singer and guitarist.
His daughters say he’s not internationally well known; he’s only “county
famous.”
Kelly Kennedy is the author of They Fought for Each Other:
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq, as well as
co-author of Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are
Trained. She served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1993, including tours in
the Middle East during Desert Storm, and in Mogadishu, Somalia. She is the
managing editor of The War Horse, a nonprofit investigative and
long-form journalism newsroom affectionately known as the ProPublica of
military news. She has worked as a health policy reporter for USA Today,
as well as reporting for Military Times, The Chicago
Tribune, The Oregonian, and The Salt Lake Tribune.
As a journalist, she has embedded in both Iraq and Afghanistan. She is the only
U.S. female journalist to both serve in combat and cover it as a civilian
journalist, and she is the first female president of Military Reporters &
Editors. In her spare time, she dances ballet and completely loses her military
bearing.