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César Vidal Manzanares (Madrid, May 9, 1958), is an American-born Spanish Spanish
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,
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and
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of numerous popular works, essays and novels.


Biography

César Vidal was born in
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on May 9, 1958 in the
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neighborhood and studied high school at the Escuelas Pías de San Antón. He is the brother of jurist and writer Gustavo Vidal Manzanares. He has a PhD in Law from
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, in Theology and Philosophy by Logos University, where he is a member of the Board of Regents. He is also a member of the Executive Council of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy. He is also member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (North American Academy of the Spanish Language) since 2015. He has been collaborator of several media, such as ''El Mundo'', ''Diario 16'', ''Periodico de Aragon'' and ''La Razón''. He hosted the radio show ''
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'' on
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from 2004 to 2009. That year he quit COPE to launch with
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a radio station, esRadio. In 2013 he abandoned that project too, due to disagreements with Federico Jiménez Losantos. /sup> Since 2014 he is the host of ''La Voz'', a radio program broadcast from the United States. He specializes in historical studies about totalitarian regimes and history of religions. His book ''El Holocausto'' is the first complete history of the Holocaust written by a Spaniard. His book ''Las Brigadas Internacionales'' (''The International Brigades'') has been described by the American historian,
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, as "the most complete book about the International Brigades published in any language, in any time, and in any place." Payne also said that ''La Guerra Que Ganó Franco'' (''The War that Franco Won'') "is the best military history of the Spanish Civil War in one volume." In his books about the Spanish Civil War he used original Soviet sources to make discoveries about the role of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and the Cold War, the Republican Political Repression or the foreign intervention in the conflict. In his work ''Paracuellos- Katin: El Genocidio de la Izquierda'' and in ''Checas de Madrid'', Vidal provides an estimate of people murdered during the Spanish Civil War by leftist groups. Among his studies in History of Religions, especially praised has been his trilogy of founders of religions; "Jesus, el Judio","Buda, el Principe", and "Mahoma el Guia". He was the first translator of historical sources to Spanish such as ''The Egyptian history of Manetho'', ''The Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi'', ''The Complete Narrative of Ancient Egypt'' and ''Komintern Documents''. The number of his books is over 100 and several have been on best seller lists and received historical and literary awards. He is also known for his far-right views on Islam, the
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and
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's administration. In his books about the Spanish Civil War ''La Guerra que Ganó Franco'', ''Checas de Madrid'' and ''Paracuellos-Katyn. El Genocidio de la Izquierda'', he gives revisionist views of the conflict that are at odds with mainstream historians, and which are shared by fellow
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like
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and
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. In the latter book, Vidal provides an estimate of people murdered during the Spanish Civil War for practicing Catholicism. He has also claimed in his show that Islam and
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have been
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's main enemies throughout its history. He has the theory that
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was "a
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operation to destabilize general
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", believes
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is a "primitive language", and is skeptic about the
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. He also writes a column in the newspaper '' La Razón'', and used to publish a series called ''Misterios de la Historia'' in ''
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''.


Awards

Vidal is a researcher in the international contexts of literary international commendation and international commendation in the Premio Humanism Fund of Hebraica, where he reconfirms his work on the defense of human rights in the organization of the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Survivors (Venezuela), ORT (México), Juventus Contra la Intolerancia or the Territorial Terrorism Asociación. Award Harold Kregel, Book of the Year SEPA Apóstol para las naciones, Broadman & Holman (2022) Award Club de Periodistas de México (2021) Award Micrófono de plata (2005), ( Silver Microphone) Award Gold Antenna. Antena de Oro (2005) Award of Communication of Hazte oír (2005) The Gold Pen Award by the Victims of Terrorism. Pluma de oro de las víctimas del terrorismo (2008) Award Spanish of the year by ADNE. Español del año de ADNE (2011) Award of the Israeli Embassy for better the relationship between Spain and Israel (2012) Award Torsón de oro (2013) Premio de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Cartagena (2000) by "La mandrágora de las doce lunas" Premio de biografía "Las Luces" (2002) for "Lincoln" Premio Jaén (2004) on "El último tren a Zúrich" The premiere of "CCEI" (2005) "Premio Espiritualidad" (2004) with "El tesamento del pescador", the most sold book of spiritual content in Spain 2004 after the Bible. Premio de Ciencias Sociales (2005) de la Academia de ciencias, tecnología, educación y humanidades. Premio de Novela in Ciudad de Torrevieja (Sept. 2005) in the "Los Hijos de la luz" and in the Jesse James neighborhood. Premio de Novela Historia Alfonso X El Sabio (2006), con la obra "El fuego del cielo." Premio Literari Algaba de Biografía, Autobiografía, Memorias e Investigaciones Históricas (2006), por la obra Pablo, el judío de Tarso. II Premio Finis Terrae por El caso Lutero.2005:
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, winner, ''Los Hijos de la Luz''


Works

;1987 * Recuerdos de un testigo de Jehová * El infierno de las sectas ;1989 * Psicología de las sectas ;1991 * Las sectas frente a la Biblia ;1992 * Diccionario de patrística ;1993 * Diccionario histórico del Antiguo Egipto * El primer Evangelio: El documento Q * El retorno del ocultismo: Nueva Era y fe cristiana * Los documentos del Mar Muerto ;1994 * Buda: Vida, Leyenda, Enseñanza * El mito de María * La sabiduría del Antiguo Egipto * Recuerdo Mil Novecientos Treinta y Seis: Una Historia Oral de la Guerra Civil Espanola * La otra cara del Paraíso: la verdad sobre las grandes sectas ;1995 * Diccionario de Jesús y los Evangelios * El Desafío de las Sectas * El judeocristianismo palestino en el siglo I; De Pentecostés a Jamnia * Historias Curiosas Del Ocultismo * Manuscritos del Mar Muerto * Textos para la historia del pueblo judío ;1996 * Diccionario de Las Tres Religiones Monoteístas * Durruti: La furia libertaria * En Las Raíces De La Nueva Era * José Antonio: La biografía no autorizada * La guerra de Franco ;1997 * Como Presentar el Evangelio A los Mormones * Diccionario de los Papas * El Holocausto * El Maestro de la Justicia * El médico del sultán * Enciclopedia de las religiones * La destrucción de Guernica: Un balance sesenta años después * La esclava de Cleopatra * La ocasión perdida: la Revolución Rusa de 1917: del régimen zarista a los horrores del estalinismo * Los incubadores de la serpiente: orígenes ideológicos del nazismo, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Holocausto * Conspiración contra las Sagradas Escrituras ;1998 * Cuentos del Antiguo Egipto * Las Cinco llaves de lo desconocido * La tercera España * Las Brigadas Internacionales * Los textos que cambiaron la Historia * Nuevo diccionario de sectas y ocultismo ;1999 * Breve historia global del siglo XX * Diccionario histórico del cristianismo * El Caballo que aprendió a volar * El Emperador Perjuro * El Inquisidor Decapitado * El Libro Prohibido * El Obispo Hereje * El Perro de Gudrum * Enciclopedia del 'Quijote' * Haway 1898: La historia de la última reina de Haway * La Furia de Dios * La leyenda de Al-Qit * Los Esenios de Qumran * Como Presentar el Evangelio A los Testigos de Jehová * El yugo de los tártaros * Enigmas y Secretos de la Inquisición * La Estrategia de la Conspiración ;2001 * El violinista del rey animoso * Fan y la Reina de los Piratas * Los exploradores de la Reina y otros aventureros victorianos * Te esperaré mil y una noches ;2002 * El poeta que huyó de Al-Ándalus * Enigmas históricos al descubierto: de Jesús a Ben Laden * La batalla de los cuatro reyes * La mandrágora de las doce lunas * Lincoln * Los tres días del gladiador * Yo, Isabel la Católica * El año de la libertad ;2003 * Bilbao no se rinde * Checas de Madrid: Las cárceles republicanas al descubierto * Nuevos enigmas históricos al descubierto: de Nostradamus a Saddam Hussein * OVNIS Cual Es La Verdad? * Victoria o muerte en Lepanto * Pablo Iglesias * De Isabel a Sofía: Medio milenio de reinas de España * El aprendiz de cabalista * El testamento del pescador * El último tren a Zurich * España frente al Islam: de Mahoma a Ben Laden Fernando Botero: La pasión de crea ;2004 * Grandes procesos de la Inquisición. Seis relatos prohibidos * José Carreras: Un canto a la esperanza * La dama de la reina Isabel * La luz del día final * Memoria de la Guerra Civil Española: Partes nacionales y republicanos * Miguel de Cervantes: El soldado escritor * Pluma gris y el gran perro * Primavera en el Camino de las Lágrimas ;2005 * Bienvenidos a La Linterna: La historia nos ilumina la actualidad * Diccionario secreto del 'Quijote' * Dilaf el Sabio * Dilaf y la princesa * El Documento Q * El Maestro De Scherezade * El médico de Sefarad * El Medico del Sultan * El Talmud * El talón de Aquiles * El tributo de los elfos * El último ajusticiado y otras historias de la inquisición * El viento de los dioses * Las alforjas del cuentacuentos * Los evangelios gnósticos * Los hijos de la luz * Los masones: la historia de la sociedad secreta más poderosa * Paracuellos-Katyn: Un ensayo sobre el genocidio de la izquierda ;2006 * Artorius * Camino del sur * Corría el año... los mejores editoriales de La Linterna * El Fuego del Cielo * El legado del cristianismo en la cultura occidental: Los desafíos del siglo XXI * El talón de aquiles * España Frente a los Judíos: Sefarad: Del Profeta Jonas a la Expul Sion * Jesus y los Manuscritos del Mar Muerto * La guerra que ganó Franco * Mentiras de la historia... de uso común ;2007 * Cambiaron la historia * César Vidal responde * El camino hacia la cultura * El escriba del faraón * El hijo del hombre * Jesús y Judas * La noche de la tempestad. ;2008 * La EZpaña de ZP * España contra el invasor francés 1808 * ¿Por qué soy cristiano? 2015 * El legado de la Reforma, una herencia para el futuro, JUCUM 2020 * Un mundo que cambia, patriotismo frente a agenda globalista, The Agustin Agency * Más que un rabino, la vida y las enseñanzas de Jesús el judio, Lifeway B&H 2021 * El exiliado, para todos los que van por el mundo buscando paz y libertad, The Agustin Agency * La mandragora de las doce lunas, The Agustin Agency * Apóstol para las naciones, la vida y los tiempos de Pablo de Tarso, Lifeway B&H '2022 * La mujer y la reforma, JUCUM


Criticism

His detractors, including professional historians Ian Gibson and
Ángel Viñas Ángel Viñas Martín (born 1941) is a Spanish economist and historian. He has published many works dealing with the Spanish Civil War focusing on the war finance as well as the international relations aspects of the conflict. Biography Born i ...
, accuse him of lack of rigor in his works, that often offer biased arguments. Vidal has been accused of misquoting historical sources and manipulating translations to support his own opinions.


References


External links

* http://www.lalinterna.com (broken link) * http://www.cesarvidal.com * http://www.caminodelsur.com * http://www.planetadeagostini.es/coleccionable/biblioteca-cesar-vidal.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Vidal Manzanares, Cesar 1958 births Living people Writers from Madrid 20th-century Spanish historians Spanish evangelicals Spanish Protestants Spanish conspiracy theorists Anti-Masonry in Spain 21st-century Spanish historians