Libros

La Historia compendiada de las Cuatro órdenes Militares de Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara y Montesa (publicada originalmente en 1862) constituye una buena muestra del debate ideológico y sentimental desatado en la España de mediados del siglo XIX. Su discurso postula un regreso al pasado, a aquella (...)

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 (...)

Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced about a third of all Axis oil, and was Germany's single most important fuel source. In the summer of 1943, the USAAF (...)

The Vickers Wellington was one of very few aircraft types to have been in production and frontline service throughout World War II, and more than 10,000 Wellingtons were built in the period. They took part in the first RAF bombing mission of the conflict when, on 4 September 1939, 14 examples from (...)

The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217 to undertake the precision maritime strike (...)

In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting D4Y Suisei ('Comet'), codenamed 'Judy' by the (...)

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 (...)

Este ensayo se acerca al día a día de las primeras damas y reinas consortes. Del estudio se infiere una muy diversa ejecución del puesto: en ocasiones, limitada a un ejercicio discreto de acompañamiento al jefe del Estado en actos protocolares, y otras, partícipe, más o menos entusiasta, en (...)

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, (...)