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This book examines the RAF's ground attack capabilities, the threats it faced, and the weapons, technologies and aircraft developed to counter those threats from the end of World War II to the present day, moving from the era of the Hawker Typhoon to that of the Eurofighter Typhoon.Throughout the (...)

This lavish book highlights a selection of the wonderful illustrations held in the archive of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens. Each illustration included in the book is accompanied by a plant profile, stating where the plant was found in the wild and explaining something of (...)

At the height of the Cold War it was Britain's V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK's nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixties. Their nuclear arsenal included not just freefall bombs but far more advanced weapons such as the Blue Steel (...)

De Cristóbal Colón se conservan relativamente pocos documentos autógrafos, e incluso se duda de la autenticidad de algunos de estos, por lo que buena parte de los escritos colombinos, entre ellos los de mayor enjundia, han llegado hasta nosotros gracias a copias que debemos, en una mayoría (...)

Entre el último tercio del siglo XVII y los dos primeros del XX, centenares de viajeros foráneos visitaron España para dejar constancia de su experiencia, volcada en libros que tuvieron amplia difusión en el extranjero y, sólo mucho más tarde, dentro de nuestras fronteras, conformando un imaginario (...)