Libros

In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and (...)

As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean colonies and the United States, the French (...)

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II.The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during the opening years of World War II. This was a (...)

A finales del siglo XIX, cuando Japón se abría al mundo tras siglos de aislamiento abrazando con entusiasmo la modernización y la industrialización, un joven artista llamado Ogata Gekko de formación autodidacta revolucionó el panorama artístico japonés creando un nuevo estilo de grabado ukiyo-e que (...)

Otro vistazo a la ciudad de Gijón por Alejandro Braña, fotografías de sus lugares comunes, su fachada marítima y la estrecha relación de sus habitantes con el mar a través del ocio y el trabajo. La ciudad reflejada en las aguas que la bañan.