Libros

The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. At this time, military operations were handled by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. The book expands our (...)

Details the organization, arms, armor, dress, and daily life of samurai, soldiers, and commoners in Edo-period Japan.Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shôgun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated (...)

Los skateparks no son sólo lugares de actividad deportiva. Para los jóvenes en particular, cumplen diversas funciones sociales más allá del deporte. David Andreu, con la ayuda y el asesoramiento de Luka Melloni ( Vulcano Skateparks ) ha recopilado una selección de skateparks internacionales con un (...)

Hermosas e inquietantes fotografías de lugares abandonados en Bélgica. La última referencia visual en la exploración urbana belga. Estos destacados reportajes fotográficos pretenden llamar la atención sobre el destino a menudo dramático del patrimonio abandonado de un país y su belleza (...)

This book describes and analyses the Manchu, or Qing, army in all its aspects. The emphasis lies on the Qing army in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, because this is the time when the Manchu military system developed its own characteristics and reached maturity. Furthermore, having (...)

Confrontation of Kings presents, for the first time in English, the largest battle of the war of the Swedish Deluge (1655-1660). During three days of fighting, the Swedish-Brandenburg Alliance faced the combined Polish, Lithuanian, and Tatar armies. It was a clash between Western and Eastern styles (...)