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 (...)

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, (...)

The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the British Royal Navy nor the German Kriegsmarine (...)

A compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War.Mukden stands out as the most significant battle of the Russo-Japanese War. By February 1905, the conflict had reached its culmination, as Port Arthur had fallen to the Japanese (...)

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 (...)

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, (...)

An illustrated history of "the first Pacific War," which saw the United States transform itself into an outward-looking, expansionist great power.In April 1898, the United States and Spain declared war on each other. Led by Commodore George Dewey, the small US Asiatic Squadron departed China and (...)

The little-known history of the Hawaii-based Seventh Air Force's war as it fought in all the major island campaigns from the Gilberts and Marshalls to the Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.Rebuilt after being shattered at Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii-based Seventh Air Force was assigned responsibility (...)

Entre 1912 y 1913, dos guerras consecutivas y de una brutalidad inusitada pusieron un fin sangriento a cinco siglos de dominio otomano en Europa. Lejos de ser un mero ajuste de fronteras, estos conflictos olvidados fueron el crisol donde se forjaron nuevos Estados-nación y el violento preludio que, (...)