Libros

This book marks the occasion of the exhibition Naty Abascal and Fashion! organized by Museo Jumex, Mexico City, from November 7, 2019 to January 5, 2020. Like the exhibition, it aims to evoke the big ateliers or couture studios, whose mirrors have witnessed the evolution of fashion, along with (...)

Juan Pablo de Carrión es un hidalgo español que, ya en el ocaso de su vida, recibe el encargo del gobernador de Manila de dirigir una expedición para acabar con Tay Fusa, un pirata japonés que está sembrando el terror en las aguas de Filipinas, amenazando las rutas comerciales entre el mar de China (...)

La aventura de Juan Sebastián Elcano después de la primera vuelta al mundoElcano recibía, en 1522, el derecho a usar un escudo de armas con el lema "Primus circumdedisti me". Carlos I se lo otorgaba tras protagonizar la primera vuelta al mundo. Esa gesta, que generó no pocas tensiones con Portugal, (...)

The history of the US Navy's gunboats, their roles in building a worldwide American naval presence and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II.For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and (...)

A concisely detailed guide to the Allied tanks that fought from D-Day to the breakout from Normandy, their qualities, numbers, and performance, and how they were used on the battlefield.When Allied tanks began to roll off the landing craft on D-Day, it marked the start of one of the great periods (...)

On April 2, 1982, Argentine armed forces invaded and captured the Falkland Islands, a British dependency in the South Atlantic long claimed by Argentina. In this comprehensive account, renowned naval historian Dr Edward Hampshire takes advantage of new sources to examine the Naval campaign that saw (...)

Este libro no cuenta 'los orígenes de la guerra' de la forma clásica. Lo que hace es narrar desde abajo, identificando algunos de los protagonistas y sus circunstancias, para explicar cómo se transitó desde un período tan complejo, apasionante y convulso como el de la primavera de 1936 hasta otro (...)