Libros

El siglo XVIII fue un periodo de liza entre la monarquía española y el Reino Unido por el control de los mares, escenario de porfiados combates y de arriesgadas operaciones anfibias contra posiciones estratégicas de uno u otro contendiente. En este conflicto interminable, la base naval de Ferrol (...)

El 6 de septiembre de 1941, mientras la batalla de Kiev seguía su curso, Adolf Hitler, en su directiva número 35, prepara la futura ofensiva del Heeresgruppe "Mite" en dirección a Moscú. Era la operación "Taifún" (Tifón). La ofensiva hacia Kiev, sin embargo, había retrasado los planes alemanes y (...)

The Vikings' siege of Paris in 885-86 was a turning point in the history of both Paris and France. In 885, a year after Charles the Fat was crowned King of the Franks, Danish Vikings sailed up the Seine demanding tribute. The Franks' refusal prompted the Vikings to lay siege to Paris, which was (...)

An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power.Operation Desert Storm took (...)

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day.In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a (...)

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed (...)

Just two weeks after the close of the Vietnam War, communist Cambodian Khmer Rouge elements seized the S.S. Mayaguez in international waters. Believing they had to act quickly, United States Marines boarded the ship, only to find the crew had been removed. They then launched an assault on a nearby (...)

A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter.Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of PQ-15 was sunk in May, PQ-17 was virtually obliterated in (...)

In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history.Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. In this (...)

Packed with never-before-seen photos, plans and meticulous new digital artwork, this is the first history of the USAAF's futuristic World War II prototype interceptor, the XP-67 "Moonbat".The series of X-planes that sprang from the US Army's Request for Data R40C, focused on high-altitude, (...)

The Trails War formed a major part of the so-called 'secret war' in South East Asia, yet for complex political reasons, including the involvement of the CIA, it received far less coverage than campaigns like Rolling Thunder and Linebacker. Nevertheless, the campaign had a profound effect on the (...)

An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets. As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still unwilling to surrender, Japan's last hope was to (...)

Erwin Rommel, oficial condecorado durante la Gran Guerra con la orden Pour Le Mérite en reconocimiento a su valor en batalla, y autor del libro Infantería al ataque, un interesante manual de táctica militar, acompañó a Hitler en 1939 durante la campaña de invasión a Polonia como jefe de seguridad, (...)

¿Por qué Felipe II impulsó la construcción del monasterio de El Escorial? Tal vez, la respuesta se encuentre en las estatuas de los seis reyes judíos que presiden la entrada a la basílica de El Escorial.¿Sabía el lector que a lo largo de su vida Carlos I creyó ser el nuevo rey David y su hijo (...)

Las zonas montañosas cubren el 26,5% del total mundial de la superficie terrestre continental. Hay infinidad de datos interesantes por descubrir sobre las montañas: desde conceptos geológicos, clima, fauna, flora, paisajes, ecología, aspectos sociales y humanos e incluso cuestiones políticas.

Miguel Ángel encarnado por Charlton Heston; Kirk Douglas con las facciones atormentadas de Van Gogh; José Ferrer cono Touluse-Lautrec... Este libro recoge información de casi 900 filmes y series de televisión y de unos 1.200 personajes directamente relacionados con la imagen del artista en el cine. (...)

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si realmente estuvo aquí? ¿Sabías que en España aún resuenan los ecos de sus pasos? ¿Por qué sabemos tanto de sus hazañas en las Galias y permanece en la sombra de la anécdota el sello hispano de su leyenda?Pocas figuras han quedado impresas de forma tan indeleble en (...)