Libros

One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at (...)

The dominating Blanc Mont Ridge complex in the Champagne region of France was home to some of the most complex German defences on the Western Front. Its heights offered artillery observation that made even approaching the ridge virtually suicidal.Pessimistic about the ability of depleted and (...)

Following the Inchon landings and the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, UN forces crossed the North Korean border on 9 October and moved on the capital Pyongyang. Many in America believed the war would be over by Christmas, but some Washington diplomatic, military, and intelligence experts (...)

The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization.The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught of Arabic imperialism since the death of the Prophet, whilst Jihadist armies had detached Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Carthage from imperial control and (...)

4 manuscritos completos en 1 libro:- Las Américas: Una guía fascinante de la historia de América del Norte y del Sur, desde los olmecas, los mayas y los aztecas, hasta los movimientos de colonización e independencia europeos- La Era de los Descubrimientos: Una guía fascinante de una era de (...)

Iglesias góticas, palacios barrocos, altivas fortalezas, plazas porticadas, callejuelas medievales...Los conjuntos históricos de la Comunidad Valenciana atesoran un excepcional patrimonio arquitectónico, herencia de las diferentes civilizaciones que los habitaron. Este libro recopila, por primera (...)

In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic (...)

Entre finales del siglo XV y principios del XIX, la Monarquía Hispánica fue una de las mayores y más complejas construcciones políticas jamás conocidas en la historia. Desde la meseta castellana hasta las cimas andinas; desde ciudades cosmopolitas como Sevilla, Nápoles, México o Manila hasta los (...)

A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt.With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front, Germany was reliant on its own facilities, (...)