Una obra deslumbrante por la vivacidad con que el autor resucita el pasado de un continente.
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Galician diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist.De Madariaga graduated with a degree in engineering in Paris, France. He then went to work as an engineer for the Northern Spanish Railway Company but abandoned this work to return to London and become a journalist, writing in English, for The Times. At this time, he began publishing his first essays. He became a press member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in 1921, and chief of the Disarmament Section in 1922.