Libros

Albert Speer, Naram-Sin de Acad, Escipión Emiliano, Irma Schrader, Shang Yang, Stig Dagerman, Sapor I o Bernardo Bellotto son algunas de las figuras que vivieron el asedio de una ciudad como vencedores, vencidos o simples testigos. A través de sus retratos, este libro reconstruye una historia del (...)

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

Over the last 30 years, the technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare.Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent (...)

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she (...)

Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the (...)

During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. (...)

The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes to tanks in the subsequent months?Offering (...)

In this highly detailed book, naval historian Edward Hampshire reveals the fascinating history of the nuclear-powered attack submarines built and operated by the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including each class of these formidable craft as they developed throughout the Cold War period.The (...)

The 'Soixante quinze', France's legendary 75mm Modele 1897, was the first modern field gun, pioneering several critical innovations in field artillery designs, including a fast action breech and a soft recoil system. Although some of these features had been incorporated into earlier guns, the 75mm (...)

Fiel al dicho de Kazantzakis según el cual el buen viajero crea el país por el que viaja , María Belmonte concibe y recrea Macedonia, en el norte de Grecia, que de su mano se nos va revelando como una tierra melancólica y misteriosa, tan exuberante, sin embargo, como la Grecia solar, y llena de (...)

Pierre Boulez descubrió a Paul Klee en 1947, durante el primer Festival de Aviñón, y el posterior contacto con su obra y sus escritos no hizo sino reforzar su fascinación por el artista, cuyo método y reflexiones parecían reflejar sus propias inquietudes. Este libro es el testimonio de esta (...)

Hay en la Historia un espacio especialmente interesante: esa zona intermedia, fronteriza, donde los hechos del pasado empiezan a perder su vigencia y los del futuro todavía no se han consolidado. Ese territorio en el que se solapan los viejos y los nuevos acontecimientos y que durante un tiempo (...)