Libros

Even before the spectacular success of its X-1 rocket-powered aircraft in breaking the "sound barrier," the adventurous Bell Aircraft Corporation was already pushing ahead with a parallel project to build a second aircraft capable of far higher speeds. The X-2 (or Model 52) explored the equally (...)

Se trata de la primera guía del Real Sitio de San Ildefonso, ampliamente ilustrada y en formato bolsillo, con toda la información para el visitante.La guía está estructurada en tres áreas temáticas:La primera ofrece al lector / visitante un contexto histórico, artístico y geográfico de La Granja, (...)

An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were long resented, and were the origin of the (...)

During World War II, Imperial Japan was the world's most militarized society, with a host of uniformed organizations supporting the war effort in East Asia and the Pacific and ultimately tasked with defending the Home Islands. Featuring full-color artwork, this book reveals the organization and (...)

This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare.Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of Augsburg was a military coalition of the Holy Roman (...)

During the Korean War and the Vietnam War, US Navy Special Warfare units played a variety of vital combat roles amid two of the deadliest conflicts of the Cold War. In Korea, underwater demolition teams (UDTs) surveyed beaches for amphibious operations, cleared sea mines from harbors, conducted (...)

This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD.Following the emergence of a distinct 'medieval Indian' (...)

Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years.Newly independent Poland's naval force was created in 1920, initially with six ex-German torpedo boats. However, after German-Soviet exercises off (...)

Se recogen los testimonios de veintiocho personas españolas y norteamericanas, en su mayoría ya fallecidos, que fueron involuntarios protagonistas del accidente nuclear de Palomares. Sobre todos cayó una implacable mezcla de silencio y olvido: los vecinos que salieron a rescatar posibles (...)

El encuentro fortuito con un árbol superviviente de la bomba atómica inspiró a Efrén Giraldo, profesor de literatura, nieto de campesinos y jardinero aficionado, los textos de este libro, que quieren contribuir al inventario de ficciones e iconografías de las plantas a través de relatos sobre (...)