Libros

Con esta antología de 28 estudios se ofrece un examen metódico de las principales fases de la vida del libro y del impreso, desde su fabricación hasta su recepción, prescindiendo de las habituales fronteras disciplinares, genéricas, nacionales, biblioteconómicas, etc. Son calas en un campo aún por (...)

Un giro inesperado es una falsa novela . El autor recupera la historia de uno de sus tíos, capitán del ejército popular de la República, desaparecido para siempre al término de la guerra civil, cuya muerte le habían referido situándola en lugares distintos y en circunstancias diversas, en ocasiones (...)

A new illustrated history of the German and Italian air campaigns in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the last full-scale Axis air offensives before Operation Barbarossa. The Greece campaign was launched by Italy in October 1940, the first large-scale campaign of the Italian Air Force (...)

Featuring original 1: 2,500,000-scale German military maps, this is a beautifully presented atlas of the 1941 Operation Barbarossa campaign.Operation Barbarossa, Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia in a (...)

The complex and fascinating story of Romania's 'turning of arms' against Nazi Germany, and the battle for Romania - an important but overlooked and misunderstood episode of World War II. The battle for Romania from March to September 1944 is a multifaceted story involving German, Romanian, Soviet, (...)

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did. Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille (...)

A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476. After the 50-year chaos of the mid-3rd century AD, Emperor Diocletian (r. AD 284 305) and his successor, Constantine I (r. AD 306 37), the first (...)

Dedicato al celebre pittore bergamasco, Moroni (1521-1580). Il ritratto del suo tempo ha l'ambizione di presentare il percorso artistico di una delle figure più rappresentative del panorama artistico lombardo del Cinquecento, rilanciandone la posizione internazionale nell'Europa del suo tempo. (...)

Over the course of some 3,000 years, Ancient Egypt fostered a vibrant and dynamic portrait tradition that encompassed innovations, revivals and renaissances. From imposing colossal statues of kings to glamorous sculptures of queens and divinities, to strikingly realistic heads of priests and (...)