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 (...)

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 gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube.The 52-day-long siege of Budapest witnessed some of the most destructive urban fighting of the war. (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

La historia de Uhtred no ha acabado. Si bien la serie de "El último reino" (o "Sajones, vikingos y normados") concluyó con la batalla final de El señor de la guerra, queda mucho por contar. Y hay demasiados hechos aún desconocidos... Desde que comenzó a escribir la historia de Uhtred, el pagano, (...)

A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike.By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east, but was under growing pressure from British (...)

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 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 (...)

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 (...)