Libros

Nagato, named for Nagato Province, was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1910s. The lead ship of her class, she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923. The ship was modernized in 1934 36 with improvements to her (...)

The former colony of Spanish Sahara saw frequent outbursts of tribal and ethnic rebellions already while ruled by colonial authorities, in the late 19th and through early 20th Century. Its vastness and distances de-facto dictated the application of air power in response. While most of these (...)

On 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle which changed warfare and represented the (...)

The League of Cambrai was an alliance formed in December 1508 by the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the ongoing conflicts in what came to be known as the Italian Wars and was fought between 1508 and 1516. (...)

In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new (...)

This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to (...)

Obra cumbre de la historia de la fotografía , este libro muestra un apasionante retrato de la América de los años 50 a modo de road movie . Los Americanos se gestó durante los años 1955 y 1956 . Publicado por primera vez en 1958, no tardó mucho en convertirse en un hito, el libro de fotografía más (...)

imagen NOVEDAD EDITORIAL FUNDACIÓN ARQUIA - SEPTIEMBRE 2023 Desde la Fundación Arquia os enviamos nuestra última novedad editorial, esperando que sea de vuestro interés y así lo sea también para vuestras redes. En este caso se trata de una nueva publicación de la colección arquia/tesis. A (...)

Una Vida Inmortal no es ni una novela ni un libro de ciencia ficción, ni siquiera uno de autoayuda. ¿De qué trata entonces? En primer lugar, ¡de usted!, querido lector; de su vida, de sus metas, de sus afanes y de sus ilusiones. Es un libro profundo, en ocasiones enigmático, que estaba destinado, (...)

A detailed study of the Battle of Narva, where Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great, showcasing new research and tactics.The Battle of Narva, in which Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great of Russia, occurred during the Great Northern War. Peter the Great's Disastrous Defeat (...)