Libros

This book brings together 50 exquisite portrait drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including works by da Vinci, Dürer, Holbein, Bernini, Carracci, Clouet and Rembrandt. These works capture a moment of connection between artist and sitter: an encounter.

On 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle which changed warfare and represented the (...)

The League of Cambrai was an alliance formed in December 1508 by the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the ongoing conflicts in what came to be known as the Italian Wars and was fought between 1508 and 1516. (...)

In the early hours of the 24th of February 1525, under the walls of the city of Pavia, the best Imperial fought against one of the largest French armies every to have invade the Italian states. Armies led by the young Francis Ist of France and the Emperor Charles Vth fought for the coveted prize of (...)

In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new (...)

This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to (...)

Este libro es la 2ª edición corregida y aumentada de la guía de la artillería de costa española. Se ha maquetado con fotografías más grandes y un mayor tamaño de letra para aquellos lectores que encontraban dificil su lectura en el anterior formato.Esta obra es un recorrido por las antiguas (...)

A detailed study of the Battle of Narva, where Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great, showcasing new research and tactics.The Battle of Narva, in which Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great of Russia, occurred during the Great Northern War. Peter the Great's Disastrous Defeat (...)