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A finales de 1776, apenas seis meses después de la histórica Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, la Revolución americana agonizaba. Nueva York había caído y el Ejército Continental de George Washington se batía en retirada. Filadelfia, sede del Congreso Continental, parecía tener (...)

La Guía Total de Japón es el compañero perfecto para sacar el mayor partido al viaje por este fascinante país. En esta guía se describe Tokio, la capital moderna, con sus interminables contrastes entre la modernidad y tradición y sus mágicas estampas nocturnas, y por supuesto Kioto, la antigua (...)

A principios del siglo XVIII, en pleno auge de la Ilustración, un insólito equipo de científicos franceses y oficiales de marina españoles ?entre ellos Jorge Juan y Antonio de Ulloa? y franceses emprendió la primera expedición científica internacional del mundo, con la intención de realizar (...)

Nominally at least, the bloody and ruinous eight-year war fought between Iran and Iraq was a confrontation dominated by operations on land. The traditional impression is that the resources devoted to naval warfare were minute in comparison to those of its major land battlefields. As so often, the (...)

Well away from the major battlefields on the ground in the Iran-Iraq War, and hidden from the gaze of the curious public, the navies and air forces of the two belligerents contested the waters of the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf. This naval aspect of the war still remains largely unknown and hugely (...)

In Last War of the Superfortresses the authors provide a detailed history of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the United States Far East Air Force's B-29 Superfortress' bombers during the Korean War of 1950 1953, drawing on Military documents in the Central Archive of the Ministry of (...)

Examines the early Cold War development of the USAF's jet fighters and fighter-bombers, detailing political, industrial, and technological challenges and innovations.In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the air forces of the United States faced unprecedented challenges. (...)

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the air forces of the United States faced unprecedented challenges. Demobilization had stripped the armed forces of millions of personnel, while the rapid transition from a wartime economy strained the aviation industry at the same time as the US (...)

This book is a huge asset to any aircraft modelers interested in the J-7 in its many guises, in many liveries, and flying under many nation's flags. The table of contents is detailed, and the chapters do not disappoint with their numerous detailed photographs and diagrams. Evey aspect of the J-7 (...)

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the air forces of the United States faced unprecedented challenges. At a stroke, the fleets of bombers that had helped to bring victory in the skies over Europe and the Pacific were rendered obsolete by the twin inventions of the atomic bomb and (...)