Libros

a batalla de Guadalete en el año 711 abrió un largo paréntesis en la historia de la península Ibérica, que se cerró en 1492 con la toma de Granada. La huella que dejaron esos ocho siglos de ocupación musulmana fue profunda, crucial, palpitante. Aquel encuentro, que se desenvolvió en el campo de (...)

This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare.Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of Augsburg was a military coalition of the Holy Roman (...)

A complete illustrated study of the varied range of Italian colonial units who served in East and North Africa.Italy only unified as a nation in 1870 and was late, and therefore impatient, in the 'scramble' for Africa. An initial foothold in Eritrea/Somalia, north-east Africa, led to a disastrous (...)