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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 (...)

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on Luftwaffe air power, air-landing troops, and the biggest airborne assault yet seen, a Dutch surrender (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

La Segunda Guerra Mundial ha sido uno de los acontecimientos más importantes de la historia del siglo xx. Chile, al igual que el resto de los países del planeta, padeció sus consecuencias en mayor o menor medida. Formalmente, el 13 de abril de 1945 Chile le declaró la guerra a Japón y este hecho (...)