Libros

La segunda revolución digital -caracterizada por la preeminencia de Internet, las redes sociales y la telefonía móvil- y la sociedad hipermoderna -caracterizada por el exceso y por la asfixia del consumo- han consolidado al unísono una era postfotográfica. En ella habitamos la imagen y la imagen (...)

Los principales terroristas del 11-M eran bien conocidos en las Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad del Estado, el Centro Nacional de Inteligencia y la Audiencia Nacional antes de 2001 por su pasada relación con células y grupos yihadistas. Además, en esas agencias e instituciones antiterroristas (...)

¿Son hoy en día los museos un mero reclamo turístico de las ciudades que los albergan o pueden ofrecer también más a sus visitantes? ¿No son acaso también lugares idóneos para reflexionar acerca del devenir del ser humano? Los museos han sido siempre custodios del pasado y, al mismo tiempo, han (...)

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 (...)

Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of South America's War of the Pacific.In the late 19th century, a war erupted between Chile and Peru, the catalyst for which was control of guano-rich Chincha (...)

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 (...)

This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Midwestern and Western states that fought for the Union during the Civil War.During the American Civil War, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, fought to (...)

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and personal equipment used by US ground forces in the Korean War features new full-color artwork and previously unpublished photographs.In June 1950, US soldiers and Marines deployed in the Korean War were dressed and equipped largely as they had been in the (...)

Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.The Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I had included peoples of German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Bosnian and other origins, whose ambitions for independent (...)

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 (...)

A world-renowned expert offers a focused, illustrated account of how Russian and Ukrainian armour fought during the crucial year of 2022, prior to the arrival of Western tanks.The invasion of Ukraine has seen full-scale mechanized warfare return to Europe. While Western armour and training has been (...)

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were. 1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were (...)