Libros

A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his artWinslow Homer (1836 1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on the other side of the Atlantic. The (...)

This book examines the RAF's ground attack capabilities, the threats it faced, and the weapons, technologies and aircraft developed to counter those threats from the end of World War II to the present day, moving from the era of the Hawker Typhoon to that of the Eurofighter Typhoon.Throughout the (...)

Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers - Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union - decided to intervene. Spain turned out to be the perfect proving (...)

Una casa verdaderamente moderna debe satisfacer numerosas demandas relacionadas con la comunidad, la privacidad, la sostenibilidad y las manías de sus habitantes. Este compendio en dos volúmenes estudia los 100 ejemplos más extraordinarios de arquitectura residencial, narrando la historia de cada (...)

At the height of the Cold War it was Britain's V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK's nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixties. Their nuclear arsenal included not just freefall bombs but far more advanced weapons such as the Blue Steel (...)

La belleza brutalista domina las imágenes de Frédéric Chaubin que retrata ejemplos de la arquitectura soviética extrema de los últimos años de la URSS. Estas fotografías exploran el mundo en desaparición de las estructuras totalitarias, proyectadas originalmente para representar, con sus formas (...)