Libros

Las mejores instalaciones deportivas de todo el mundo. Los más signíficativos "templos futbolísticos": 91 campos nos descubren su historia, sus hazañas deportivas, sus clubes, los aspectos arquitectónicos de mayor rele vancia y las anécdotas más curiosas protagonizadas por los "cracks" del balompié (...)

Esta nueva obra de la colección "Excellence. Razas de hoy" proporciona la más actual y completa información sobre los orígenes, estándar, temperamento y características del Bulldog Inglés. Junto a un texto altamente informativo, escrito con claridad y precisión se presentan innumerables fotografías (...)

En este libro de memorias, que tiene muchos momentos a la altura de 'El Gatopardo', Fulco di Verdura describe su idílica infancia en la magnífica Villa Niscemi en un mundo y un tiempo inolvidables: la aristocrática Palermo anterior a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Fulco nos seduce con divertidas (...)

El amor tiene mil caras. Y no todas ellas siempre parecen reales, sino que, en ocasiones, nos semejan imaginadas, utópicas e incluso surrealistas. Casi ciencia ficción. Y, a veces, ese amor es el más palpable De ahí que, en estos nueve relatos, divididos entre sí por la locura, el miedo y la (...)

A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned. Although long overshadowed in the West by the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima (...)

A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Center.Operation Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been called Hitler's Greatest Defeat. The operation involved substantial tank and armored vehicles on both sides (...)

An illustrated history of the long Cold War careers of the US Navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized World War II-era Fletcher-class to the Forrest Sherman-class.The finest American destroyers of World War II had surprisingly long careers into the Cold War and the missile age. The (...)

A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940.The German conquest of France in 1940 was arguably the Wehrmacht's greatest military achievement, conquering France in several weeks after having failed to do so in World War I. New (...)

A fully illustrated study of the Wehrmacht's French volunteer units and their actions on the Eastern Front and in North Africa during World War II.It is little known that, in late 1941, French volunteer units were among Wehrmacht troops defending Germany in the first bitter winter on the Eastern (...)

An award-winning US Marine Corps armor historian's account of the role of US and Japanese tanks on Iwo Jima. The battle of Iwo Jima is iconic and known for its brutality: this was the only battle in which the number of US casualties outnumbered those of the Japanese. But as is often the case with (...)

A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476. After the 50-year chaos of the mid-3rd century AD, Emperor Diocletian (r. AD 284 305) and his successor, Constantine I (r. AD 306 37), the first (...)

A fully illustrated study of the French armies that were inspired by Saint Jeanne d'Arc, reformed under King Charles VII and eventually victorious over England in the Hundred Years' War.Saint Jeanne d'Arc remains a central figure in France's national legend, having ushered the country's flagging (...)

Featuring full-color artwork, this book describes and illustrates the Chinese and North Korean troops who fought US and UN forces in Korea during 1950 53.In June 1950, North Korean forces armed and equipped by the Soviet Union invaded South Korea, forcing back the US and South Korean troops facing (...)

The first book to examine the Japanese and American tank forces in the Philippines campaigns, which saw the biggest armored clashes of the Pacific War.The Philippines saw the most extensive tank combat of any single theater in the Pacific War. In this book, armor expert Steven J. Zaloga explains (...)

This study of the evolving uniforms and personal equipment used by US ground forces in the Korean War features new full-color artwork and previously unpublished photographs.In June 1950, US soldiers and Marines deployed in the Korean War were dressed and equipped largely as they had been in the (...)

A detailed, illustrated study of Germany's Panzer forces that invaded the Soviet Union, explaining how and why they performed as they did.Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's huge and fateful invasion of the Soviet Union, was the culmination of nearly two years of European conquests. By the time of (...)

A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The (...)

Este libro, que prologa el arquitecto italiano, académico de San Luca y rector de la Universidad IUAV de Venecia Alberto Ferlenga, incluye cuatro textos de Dimitris Pikionis inéditos hasta ahora en español y tres de las conferencias que tuvieron lugar en el Círculo de Bellas Artes con motivo de la (...)