Libros

Aquellos que aún ríen con el Keaton de celuloide es seguro que tampoco podrán contenerse con este Keaton de carne y hueso, que se anunciaba como la bayeta humana y al que Joe Keaton, su padre, lanzaba, estrellaba, arrastraba y vapuleaba por los escenarios de los Estados Unidos de principios de (...)

The first English-language book to examine the crucial part air power played in the Soviet-Afghan War. The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was fought as much in the air as on the ground. From the high-level bombing raids that blasted rebel-held mountain valleys, to the Mi-24 helicopter (...)

A history of the US Navy's remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese, the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampage through coastal waters. As 1945 opened, Japan was fighting defensively everywhere. As the Allies drew closer to the Home Islands, risks of Japanese (...)

A fully illustrated study of the Nakajima Ki49 'Helen', the twin-engined bomber of the Pacific War, from Japanese aviation expert George Eleftheriou.The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu ('Dragon Eater'), codenamed 'Helen' by the Allies, was a twin-engined Japanese bomber designed to undertake daylight attacks (...)

A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific.After the devastating Japanese blows of December 1941, the Allies found themselves reeling (...)

Un amanecer sereno. He contemplado el sol bañando el estudio con una luz anaranjada y brillante, y me he sentado para atrapar la visión del disco rojo justo cuando se detenía un segundo en el borde exacto del horizonte. En 1973, May Sarton abandonó su casa de Nuevo Hampshire, escenario de toda esa (...)

A spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which saw the last combat of America's legendary B-29s. Just five years after they defeated Japan, at the dawn of the jet age, the most advanced bomber of World War II was already obsolescent. (...)

En este magistral estudio, Ilan Pappe aborda la historia de Palestina, una tierra habitada por dos pueblos con identidades nacionales distintas. El libro comienza en el periodo otomano, a principios del siglo XIX, durante el reinado de Mohamed Alí, y traza un recorrido que va desde la llegada de (...)

Former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier chronicles the action-packed history of the Harrier GR 7/9, and its missions in West Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan over a 14-year period of ceaseless operations.The Harrier GR 7/9 was at the 'tip of the spear' for the RAF when it came (...)

The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.In November 1944, the US Army Air Force launched a 111-plane B-29 strike against Tokyo, the first raid since the morale-boosting (...)

"La epopeya de la Kriegsmarine" es el diario de guerra de la Marina alemana, el informe apasionante de la lucha en el mar a lo largo de cinco años densos de heroísmo y sufrimientos. Pero, tanto como historia objetiva y minuciosa, es el reflejo de la lucha en el mar, de las grandes acciones y de la (...)

Bienvenido al lado tenebroso de la historia romana. Aquí le espera un mundo a veces estridente y a veces amenazador, pero siempre inquietantemente familiar. Es un mundo de consumo de drogas, pérfidos asesinatos, oscuros cultos, misteriosos asuntos de Estado, corrupción, brutales peleas entre bandas (...)

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Germany or Italy insisted upon the transfer of battleships, (...)

Por más sorprendente que parezca, todo lo que se cuenta en La luz que nos guía ocurrió de verdad. Basada en hechos reales, la acción arranca en el verano de 1932, cuando cinco amigos que viven en un pueblo de España, y que coquetean con el comunismo más radical, acaban involucrados en la muerte del (...)

An illustrated account of the development and action-packed service history of the Jaguar attack jet, featuring first-hand accounts from the pilots that flew it into combat. Developed as a joint venture between Britain and France, the SEPECAT Jaguar was originally intended to be a jet trainer (...)

Packed with illustrations, this is the first book to focus on the 'Transportation Plan', the air campaign to isolate the D-Day beaches from German reinforcements.As the invasion of Europe grew closer, thought was given to how to use the Allies' substantial forces of heavy bombers in preparation. (...)

A fully illustrated account of the World War 2 combat career of the Fairey Swordfish torpedo-bomber, one of the Royal Navy's most resilient and effective aircraft of the period.During the 1930s, the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm sought an aircraft to combine the functions of torpedo attack, (...)