Libros

April 1544: The French army led by Charles of Bourbon Count of Enghien - deployed in the siege of Cairignano, a city occupied by the imperials was ordered to fight Alfonso d'Avalos Marquis of Vasto, the hated Imperial rival.After almost twenty years from the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most (...)

This book covers an important part of British military history, namely the Trained Bands of the early Stuart period, 1603 - 1642. Both James I and Charles I tried to create a perfect militia during their reigns but how far did they get in achieving this aim? There is very little published about (...)

En 1916, un excéntrico magnate contrató a Elizebeth Smith, una joven maestra cuáquera y poetisa, para que encontrara los mensajes secretos que creía contenían las obras de Shakespeare. Elizebeth se trasladó a su lujosa finca on la esperanza de pasar el día estudiando libros antiguos. Pero los (...)

Una obra extraordinaria para descubrir la belleza de las plantas de nuestro entorno, que ofrece una visión excepcional de 275 especies de flores, árboles y arbustos europeos, gracias a la reproducción de unas láminas fotográficas de una calidad asombrosa, que producen literalmente la impresión de (...)

Elephants and Gunpowder presents for the first time a chronological, detailed and richly illustrated account of the development of warfare in mainland Southeast Asia during the Early Modern Period. It begins by describing the region's medieval military inheritance that was dominated by the use of (...)

Oda Nobunaga was Japan's great military genius and the nation's first to envisage a unified Japan. Long vilified by historians as a cruel and ruthless despot, he remains one of the most controversial figures in Japanese history a man whose strategic brilliance and military prowess are his only (...)

Five centuries have passed since the famed Battle of Pavia - one of the most significant engagements in military history. This clash marked the culmination of the so-called Italian Wars, which had ravaged the Italian peninsula for over 30 years as European powers vied for dominance of the (...)