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After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

Los breves, pero intensos capitulos de este libro, permiten al lector conocer la forma de ingresar en la Orden, el modo de batallar, la vida cotidiana, los procesos que contra ellos se siguieron en toda Europa, especialmente en Francia, pero también en las coronas de Castilla y Aragon, y el modo en (...)

Until 1945, Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies. In 1930, the area had over 60 million inhabitants and was a major exporter to Japan, providing some 13 per cent of its oil needs - second only after the United States. Following Germany's occupation of the Netherlands in (...)

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she (...)

During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. (...)

José Tomás. Este es el primer torero en muchos años que ha conseguido que la tauromaquia no sea un exclusivo de los aficionados a este ritual ancestral. Los medios de comunicación han vuelto su mirada hacia un torero distinto que expone su cuerpo hasta los límites de la tragedia y que, como aquí se (...)

El presente libro recopila textos inéditos del arquitecto y doctor en Historia del Arte Enrique X. de Anda Alanís acerca de aquello que, en términos generales, puede entenderse como cultura arquitectónica. Escritos a lo largo de los últimos 20 años, aun y la diversidad de sus orígenes (...)