Libros

An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded. The Blitz - the German 'blitzkrieg' of Britain's industrial and port cities - was one of the most (...)

A gripping illustrated narrative of the Cimbrian (or Cimbric) War, in which the armies of the Roman Republic finally defeated the Germanic tribes of the Cimbri, Teutons, Ambrons and Tigurini. Rome's victory in the Cimbrian War was born of a number of huge and devastating defeats at the hands of the (...)

A fascinating exploration of the feats of the RAF's photographic reconnaissance aircraft. The photographic reconnaissance (PR) versions of the Supermarine Spitfire saw service against the Axis Tripartite throughout World War 2. Its superior performance even led to the USAAF adopting the type for (...)

Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, István Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet fighters ever built, the MiG-21 "Fishbed" was (...)

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the (...)

A lo largo del siglo XVI la dinasti a de los emperadores Habsburgo, debido a una disen ada poli tica de alianzas matrimoniales que hunde sus rai ces a finales del siglo XV, consiguio un amplio dominio sobre gran parte de Europa con grandes consecuencias en todos los terrenos, el arti stico, (...)

La sexualidad puede parecer algo natural, como el comer, y, sin embargo, más allá de la biología, comporta una enorme carga social como también lo hacen la gastronomía y los modales en la mesa . Así, el elemento natural se va cubriendo de capas y más capas de normas, tabúes, prejuicios, deseos y (...)