Libros

Initially developed by Savoia-Marchetti as a transport, the aircraft had evolved into a dedicated medium bomber by the time the S.79-I made its combat debut in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. During World War 2, it became Italy's most successful bomber, and the most produced, with around 1370 built (...)

España Reinventada analiza, tanto desde la perspectiva histórica comodesde la política, las transformaciones que el concepto de España,como nación, y la identidad nacional española han sufrido desde lamuerte de Franco hasta nuestros días. Se trata de un tema que haacaparado buena parte de la (...)

En este libro los chicos de Ad Absurdum desentrañan varios episodios de la historia de Cataluña, desde que Carlomagno pisó Hispania hasta que Puigdemont pisó Bélgica. Por el camino, intentan averiguar cómo el procés ha llegado a la situación en la que se encuentra. Todo un viaje histórico desde (...)

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469 1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for many high-profile patrons, including Isabella of Castile in Spain, and specialized in beautiful small (...)

In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important (...)

Accompanying an exhibition of spectacular drawings by great giants of Flemish Baroque art from the superlative collection of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, Power and Grace demonstrates the crucial but very different roles played by drawings in oeuvres of Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens, (...)

Brassaï (1899-1984) es uno de los nombres esenciales dentro del grupo de fotógrafos europeos y estadounidenses que a lo largo del siglo XX lograron redefinir la identidad y enriquecer el potencial de la fotografía como medio artístico. De su obra destaca principalmente su trabajo sobre París, (...)