Libros

Por encima de los carpes del jardín, veía las copas de los árboles asomando al otro lado del muro de cinta, en los bosques, y soñaba con pasear por allí. Sabía que en primavera el sotobosque estaba tapizado de anémonas y de jacintos silvestres, los entreveía desde la ventanilla del coche familiar (...)

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did. Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille (...)

Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power.The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of the most formidable navies in the world, and its (...)

The first book to examine the battleship-led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding.When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was the most powerful in the US Navy. It was still (...)

D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector. The US Navy's Western Task Force.A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg. The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex (...)

En la zona del Mediterráneo vive una gran cantidad de diversas plantas. En este libro se estudia la flora mediterránea, desde orquídeas pasando por hierbas, helechos y coníferas. Más de 1500 plantas silvestres ordenadas alfabéticamente por familias y más de 900 mapas de distribución que muestran su (...)

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen. Fully illustrated, this explores its fighting power.At the start of World War I, the Royal Navy's forces were amalgamated into a single entity, the Grand Fleet, and (...)

Germany's legendary Atlantic surface war was fought by Naval Group West. Superbly illustrated, this unpacks the details of how it operated and fought. Having spent the 1930s on an ambitious but confused bid to build a new battle fleet, Germany began World War II woefully unprepared. Under (...)

Naval dominance was crucial to the defence of South Korea, and this illustrated study explains how the US Navy brought its war-winning fleet to bear in a complex campaign.Fought just five years after the US Navy's carrier-led forces swept into Tokyo Bay, the naval campaign in Korea was a very (...)

An authoritative, illustrated history of how Germany fought to dominate the North Sea in early World War II, and take the naval war to Britain's coasts.Britain's war economy relied not only on the Atlantic Convoys, but also on superiority in coastal waters. Six days out of seven, convoys left (...)