Libros

A lo largo de la historia, el hombre ha mostrado su carácter más despiadado cuando se ha enfrentado a otros hombres. La Segunda Guerra Mundial se convirtió en el punto culminante de esa siniestra evolución del mal; el holocausto fue la expresión máxima de los límites que puede alcanzar el odio y la (...)

Senderos entre los árboles comienzan donde otros muchos libros acaban. Por sus páginas van desfilando usos, costumbres, mitos, leyendas. Su lectura constituye un paseo, en compañía de los árboles, por los caminos del bosque de la cultura, de la imaginación, de la emotividad, Tal vez a quien lo ojee (...)

The first in a three-book series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new (...)

On April 2, 1982, Argentine armed forces invaded and captured the Falkland Islands, a British dependency in the South Atlantic long claimed by Argentina. In this comprehensive account, renowned naval historian Dr Edward Hampshire takes advantage of new sources to examine the Naval campaign that saw (...)

The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece.In the years that followed Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela on 1 October 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly 'Herculean' series of campaigns in what is today Iran, (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

A compelling account of the failure of Imperial Japan's Operation Ro-Go, intended to take the offensive in the Solomons theater of the Pacific War, but which became Japan's first line of defense against the Allies' Rabaul raids and Bougainville landings.By the midpoint of World War II in the (...)

A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy.After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US Fifth Army and British Eighth Army advanced up the Italian Peninsula. By October, the Allied armies (...)

The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina.The Battle of Matapan witnessed the first use of decisive new technologies to bring about a stunning British victory over the Italian Navy. The Allies had tapped into the (...)

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together.With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal Navy was able to put together a major force to (...)

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II.A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asian island of Borneo. Within eight weeks, the entire (...)

A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms.The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in the coastal Arakan region in (...)

The first part of a detailed study of one of the longest, and most brutal, tactical operations of World War II.In September 1944, the Allied High Command continued to press eastwards towards the Rhine, the thrust being spearheaded by Courtney Hodges' US First Army, whose proposed line of advance (...)

A gripping account of the most famous convoy operation of the war, which marked a high-water mark for the German naval campaign in the Arctic.The Arctic was a vital conduit for transporting supplies directly from Great Britain to Russia. The British Home Fleet was tasked with protecting these (...)

The fascinating story of Republican Rome's gruelling six-year campaign against the insurgent Numidian warlord, Jugurtha. Jugurtha, the adoptive son of Micipsa, king of the Numidians, was initially a much-respected ally of Rome, fighting gallantly alongside the Romans during the Numantine War in (...)

A fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much-vaunted phalanxes.The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold over mainland Greece was broken, with the (...)

The Second Battle of Sirte was a key naval clash in the Mediterranean, and a vital moment in the struggle for Malta's survival.Malta was the key to the hard-fought naval campaign being waged in the Mediterranean, a link in the vital Axis supply lines between Italy and North Africa. Struggling under (...)

This updated edition profiles twenty of the world's leading street photographers and teaches readers how to capture profound urban moments.In recent years, photo sharing on social media has rejuvenated street photography, and its spirit has been reborn. The Street Photographer's Manual is about the (...)

A fascinating dive into the overlooked fight between the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Suez Canal.The Battle of Romani was fought between Britain's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the Ottoman Empire's Sinai Expeditionary Force in the (...)