Libros

In wartime London, the Simmonds family takes in a Jewish refugee from Warsaw named Dovidl, who is also a violin prodigy, and young Martin Simmonds and Dovidl become fast friends. When Dovidl loses his entire family in the camps, his adoptive father, a music impresario, arranges a debut for him--but (...)

A fully illustrated overview of the USSR's bloody conflict in Afghanistan and its long legacy.The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a nine-year conflict until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988 89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands (...)

In December 1979 the USSR's 40th Army crossed the border into Afghanistan. Special forces troops the infamous GRU Spetsnaz and KGB agents had already entered the country and in a fierce gun battle assassinated Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin in Tajbeg Palace so that he could be replaced by (...)

Chronicles the Spanish Civil War's early air battles, showing how foreign aircraft and pilots shaped modern aerial warfare.In July 1936, Spain's air arm stood on the brink of obsolescence. Its handful of Nieuport-Delage Ni52C.1 fighters, Breguet XIX bombers and Dornier seaplanes represented a (...)