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This book covers a little-known period of fighting in the Gulf of Finland. Its first chord was the German intervention in Finland and Estonia in early 1918 and evacuation of the Baltic Fleet through ice to Kronstadt.Through the entire year 1918 the Soviet forces were preparing their bases in (...)

The Story of the English Garden is the National Trust's accessible history of the nation's gardens, sumptuously illustrated and artfully curated.From tiny medieval gardens to vast Georgian parks, from Victorian glasshouses crammed with exotic specimens to the elegant outdoor 'rooms' of the (...)

Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in the Royal Navy's campaign. This is their (...)

Developed to meet a Soviet Ministry of Defense requirement for a fast bomber that would counter the threat posed by NATO, the Tu-16 was a ground-breaking project. It was the first Soviet medium bomber to feature swept wings, and it was built around a pair of turbojets that were the world's most (...)

The glamour associated with knights in shining armor, colorful tournaments, and heroic deeds appeal strongly to the modern imagination. However, few pieces of military dress and equipment have survived, so for a comprehensive view of the nature of medieval warfare we rely on written documentation (...)

Timetunnel to the 15th century. This is 1493's must-have history book and city guide by Hartmann Schedel. Hartmann Schedel's "Weltchronik", or "Chronicle of the World" (better known today as the "Nuremberg Chronicle", after the German city in which it was created), was a groundbreaking encyclopedic (...)

La iglesia mayor de Santa María en Carmona es probablemente, tras la catedral hispalense, el edificio más importante del gótico catedralicio sevillano, un ciclo arquitectónico integrado por el conjunto de templos que, entre finales del XV y comienzos del XVI, se fundaron o remodelaron siguiendo la (...)

Sabartés es seguramente el más devoto y despersonalizado de los escogidos cronistas de Picasso. El artista le dio su aprobación incondicional y le animó a publicar Picasso. Retratos y recuerdos. Junto a sus publicaciones sobre Picasso, el principal legado de Sabartés es el Museu Picasso de (...)