Libros

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running.Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command (...)

A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse and capitulation of seven modern industrialized nations.On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany launched the invasion of Poland, employing a (...)

"Full of surprises and evocative." The Spectator"Passionately written." Apollo"An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal"Monumental." Times Literary Supplement"An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts"An important book." The Arts Society MagazineIn his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh (...)

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the seventeenth-to-nineteenth-century mania for all things Chinese, from blue-and-white china tea sets to entire suites of Chinese-inspired rooms, including parts of the sumptuous Brighton Pavilion.Chinoiserie is the taste for Chinese-inspired designs that (...)

In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic (...)

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II.The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during the opening years of World War II. This was a (...)

La capilla del Espíritu Santo, también denominada capilla de los Simancas o de los Obispos, ha sido recientemente restaurada por el Cabildo Catedral. De este modo, nuevamente, la entidad capitular demuestra su constante compromiso en beneficio de la conservación y puesta en valor de un patrimonio, (...)