Libros

En la Edad Media, el siglo XIII fue el siglo de la mujer y de las catedrales, una época de culto a la poesía, al amor y a la inteligencia que encuentra una de sus expresiones más acabadas en el arte gótico, que permite el maridaje entre la belleza artistica y el homenaje a la deidad cristiana. Sin (...)

Son muchos los libros que celebran las victorias de los genios militares y muy pocos los que se ocupan de la plétora de estúpidos guerreros que, vistiendo los uniformes de todas las naciones y al frente de ejércitos, flotas y fuerzas aéreas, han enviado a centenares de miles de hombres a morir (...)

En el año 1888, Europa se tambalea.A León XIII, papa de Roma, no le quedan demasiados años de vida, y ya los buitres sobrevuelan el Vaticano a la espera del próximo cónclave. Mientras tanto, monseñor Patrizi, pragmático, visionario y ambicioso, busca influir en la anglicana Inglaterra para, desde (...)

The story of what really led to Germany losing the battle of Stalingrad - the inability of the Luftwaffe to keep Sixth Army supplied throughout the winter of 1942 43 - and why this crucial airlift failed.Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering's failure to deliver his promise to keep Sixth Army supplied at (...)

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 (...)

With first-hand insight into the into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions in the two wars. The advent of the (...)

Su padre había iniciado el camino, pero fue traicionado. Él, sin embargo, se refugió en la costa, lejos de los clanes; sólo deseaba embarcar hacia las verdes islas del norte y seguir los pasos de las antiguas leyendas.Pero su pueblo agonizaba, esclavizado en la mayor mina de oro de la todopoderosa (...)

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 (...)

An illustrated account of the early service of the Lockheed U-2, one of the most important and longest-serving intelligence gathering platforms fielded by the US air force.The U-2 is one of the most recognizable aircraft of the Cold War; nicknamed the 'Dragon Lady' after the codename given to it by (...)

In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown.Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented nuclear deterrence operation, a hugely (...)

Antonio Bonet Correa siguió con gran fascinación, casi desde sus inicios, los pasos del pintor Guillermo Pérez Villalta (Tarifa, 1948). El artista se convierte en este libro en el espejo en el que se contempla el historiador del arte. De ahí que estas páginas que les dedica a la vida y la obra del (...)

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, (...)

A history and analysis of the fierce air war over the huge battlefield of Kursk, where the Soviets for the first time fought the all-conquering Luftwaffe to a standstill.The battle of Kursk was the last opportunity for the Luftwaffe to fully support a large-scale offensive, and was the Soviet air (...)

An illustrated study of the ongoing career of the iconic B-52, chronicling its frontline service after Operation Desert Storm in 1991.First flown in 1955, the B-52 has become an icon of deterrence and the long reach of American air power. The aircraft was conceived as a long-range nuclear bomber, (...)

A comprehensively illustrated history and analysis of 'The Hump' campaign in World War II, the huge and treacherous airlift over the Himalayas to keep China fighting.In World War II, the war in China tied down much of the Japanese Army, and it was crucial to keep China fighting and supplied. But (...)

Russian expert Mark Galeotti provides an in-depth look at the siege that pitted Ivan the Terrible and Russia's first standing army against the Khanate of Kazan, leading to Muscovy's rise.The Khanate of Kazan, one of the greatest Turkic successor states to the Mongol Golden Horde, had for (...)