Libros

A fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much-vaunted phalanxes.The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold over mainland Greece was broken, with the (...)

The Spitfire endures as one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II. Nevertheless, its initial skirmishes and battles yielded as many challenges as successes, with German forces soon outpacing pre-war RAF tactics and exploiting the Spitfire's modest endurance to their advantage. This new study (...)

Reveals the tactics, technologies, and specially raised units at the heart of the Union's conduct of combined operations in the American Civil War.During the Civil War, as well as confronting the Confederates on land, the Union forces mounted several ambitious amphibious operations, both on the (...)

La familia Castelló, propietaria de este emblemático local que abrió sus puertas en Alicante en 1972, está ligada a la de Joselito por una larga y estrecha relación, la cual ha inspirado las recetas que se presentan en este volumen, surgidas de la sinergia entre ambos. Platos que integran los (...)

Los principales oficiales y generales que lucharon y se destacaron en la guerra civil se habían curtido antes en las crueles e interminables guerras de Marruecos. Los llamados africanistas, enfrentados de manera recurrente con los junteros, aprendieron a hacer la guerra en un terreno laberíntico, (...)

El estado socialista liderado por Stalin quiso contar con los mejores cazas para defender la URSS de cualquier agresión. A mediados delos años treinta, N. Polikarpov logró diseñar el biplano I-15 Chato ,que tuvo su debut en combate sobre los cielos de la penínsuladurante la Guerra Civil Española, (...)

Rollos de papiro, tablillas de madera, códices de pergamino. Abocarse a los orígenes del libro significa estudiar las características materiales, gráficas y textuales de estos objetos para así reconstruir las técnicas que los produjeron y las necesidades intelectuales y culturales a las que (...)

Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.The Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I had included peoples of German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Serbian, Bosnian and other origins, whose ambitions for independent (...)

A detailed, illustrated study of Germany's Panzer forces that invaded the Soviet Union, explaining how and why they performed as they did.Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's huge and fateful invasion of the Soviet Union, was the culmination of nearly two years of European conquests. By the time of (...)