Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, una biografía

La primavera de 1915, un playboy parisino se convirtió en el primer piloto de combate del mundo. Nunca antes un piloto solitario había cazado a otros aviadores. Roland Garros libró ilimitados combates aéreos, cambiando para siempre la guerra. Antes de abandonar la sociedad francesa del café para ir a la Primera Guerra Mundial, el joven piloto estableció récords de aviación, ganó carreras aéreas e introdujo el vuelo más pesado ​​que el aire a las multitudes emocionadas en los Estados Unidos, Europa y América Latina. Voló como explorador para el Ejército de los EE.UU., paseó...

This is the true story of a family forced to live halfway across the world from their homeland. Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband Carl, lived in Germany before the Nazis forced the couple to flee with their two daughters. After finding Backwoods Farms in Vermont, Alice wrote this memoir about their time there building chicken coops and breaking up duck fights. Despite endless work, brutal winters and melancholy, she discovered that they had found a home.

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I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...