Libros

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together.With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal Navy was able to put together a major force to (...)

El profesor Fernández Puertas, en este segundo volumen de la obra sobre el sultán Muhammad V, nos introduce en la arquitectura en donde se celebra uno de los pocos acontecimientos conocidos, narrado por el propio Ibn al-Jahib, con tal detalle, que nos permite conocer, cómo era la vida en los (...)

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Germany or Italy insisted upon the transfer of battleships, (...)

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II.A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asian island of Borneo. Within eight weeks, the entire (...)

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942.By July 1942, the Allied troops fighting in North Africa, the multinational Eighth Army, had withdrawn to the El Alamein (...)

El presente volumen reúne a algunas de las principales especialistas actuales en arte y género para articular nuevas y necesarias aproximaciones a la Historia del arte. Resultado del simposio internacional del mismo nombre celebrado a raíz de la exposición Maestras , organizada por el Museo (...)

An extensively researched and accurate examination of the eight-month confrontation between two key World War II fighter planes in New Guinea.Although New Guinea's Thunderbolt pilots faced several different types of enemy aircraft in capricious tropical conditions, by far their most common (...)

An exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF's P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger's Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean.USAAF fighter pilots experienced a baptism of fire when flying the technically advanced but fragile P-38 Lightning over North Africa in (...)

El colapso de Occidente en África: cómo el continente se convierte en el nuevo campo de batalla por el poder global.El siglo XXI comenzó con la promesa de estabilidad en África mediante alianzas con Occidente. Sin embargo, dos décadas después, la región se ha convertido en un terreno de caos (...)

An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Morocco, marshalled a pan-tribal uprising that killed (...)

En los albores del siglo VIII, en asturias, como en otras regiones de hispania, los cristianos son brutalmente maltratados y obligados a pagar un oneroso impuesto si quieren seguir profesando su religión y no adherirse al islam. el descontento va poco a poco creciendo, hasta que pelayo y unos (...)

Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power.The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of the most formidable navies in the world, and its (...)