Libros

El libro constituye una de las muestras más completas de las tres vertientes de la obra plástica de Andrés Rábago. El catálogo recoge alrededor de 250 imágenes que abarcan la totalidad de su trayectoria: sus inicios como dibujante en prensa en los años setenta del siglo XX con el nombre de OPS; su (...)

April 1544: The French army led by Charles of Bourbon Count of Enghien - deployed in the siege of Cairignano, a city occupied by the imperials was ordered to fight Alfonso d'Avalos Marquis of Vasto, the hated Imperial rival.After almost twenty years from the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most (...)

This book covers an important part of British military history, namely the Trained Bands of the early Stuart period, 1603 - 1642. Both James I and Charles I tried to create a perfect militia during their reigns but how far did they get in achieving this aim? There is very little published about (...)

The Battle of Rocroi (19 May 1643) is famous for the French victory over the Spanish Tercios. The Duc d'Enghien, only 21 years old, defeated a Spanish army commanded by Francisco de Melo. The victory has traditionally been attributed to the military genius of the young Duke, to the superiority of (...)

Due to its successes against Austria in the first two Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War, the Prussian army is considered to have been Europe's best in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet half a century later the once-mighty forces of Frederick the Great were crushed on the fields of Jena (...)

En 1916, un excéntrico magnate contrató a Elizebeth Smith, una joven maestra cuáquera y poetisa, para que encontrara los mensajes secretos que creía contenían las obras de Shakespeare. Elizebeth se trasladó a su lujosa finca on la esperanza de pasar el día estudiando libros antiguos. Pero los (...)

In the early seventeenth century the Principality of Transylvania was a new state, organized in the decades that followed the dissolution of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, towards the middle of the sixteenth century. The rulers of Transylvania were vassals of the Ottoman Empire but enjoyed a (...)

Una obra extraordinaria para descubrir la belleza de las plantas de nuestro entorno, que ofrece una visión excepcional de 275 especies de flores, árboles y arbustos europeos, gracias a la reproducción de unas láminas fotográficas de una calidad asombrosa, que producen literalmente la impresión de (...)

The Battle of Lens marked the climax of a decade-long war between France and Spain. Both nations were exhausted after years of conflict across Spain, France, Flanders, Italy, and Germany. The struggle would culminate in a pitched battle near the city of Lens, Flanders, in the summer of 1648.By (...)

The Nine Years War (1593-1603), sometimes known as Tyrone's Rebellion, was one of the most devastating and brutal conflicts to sweep the island. Never would the English Crown come so close to losing its grip on Ireland. It was brought on by a combination of English misrule, Irish ambition and the (...)

Elephants and Gunpowder presents for the first time a chronological, detailed and richly illustrated account of the development of warfare in mainland Southeast Asia during the Early Modern Period. It begins by describing the region's medieval military inheritance that was dominated by the use of (...)

La historia naval española es extraordinariamente rica, con varias épocas gloriosas, si bien el siglo XVI ha de ser considerado en justicia como el Siglo de Oro de la navegación española, no solo desde el punto de vista militar, sino también desde el civil y el científico. La armada del Mar Océano (...)