Libros

A world-renowned expert offers a focused, illustrated account of how Russian and Ukrainian armour fought during the crucial year of 2022, prior to the arrival of Western tanks.The invasion of Ukraine has seen full-scale mechanized warfare return to Europe. While Western armour and training has been (...)

El 3 de septiembre de 1943 se iniciaba la operación anfibia para invadir Italia por parte de las fuerzas aliadas de Estados Unidos y la Commonwealth Británica. La invasión implicaría la salida de Italia dela guerra y abriría un nuevo frente para las tropas alemanas, quedeberían defender la (...)

Durante la noche del 22 de marzo de 1938, a pesar del tiempo ligeramente lluvioso, las tres Divisiones del Cuerpo de Ejército Marroquí, en una arriesgada y ensayada operación, ejecutada casi con precisión germánica, cruzaron el río Ebro a la altura de Quinto, sorprendiendo a las unidades (...)

Volume 2 of the series Les Memoires de Oubliées. On 7 May at 5 p.m., General de Castries ended the battle without raising the white flag, as he had promised his superiors. On the 70th anniversary of the end of the Indochina War, the author uses unpublished accounts to bring back to life three (...)

Charles Trang et Pierre Tiquet s'associent pour la quatrième fois pour publier un ouvrage sur la 10.SS-Panzerdivision "Frundsberg". Contrairement aux livres précédemment parus sur cette division, qui s'étaient essentiellement focalisés sur la bataille de Normandie, celui-ci traitera en détails son (...)

The catalogue accompanying the blockbuster exhibition at The National Gallery, London, which The Guardian has called 'epochal' and 'superbly curated'Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 1654 or later) is the most celebrated woman artist of the baroque period in Italy. Her career spanned more than 40 years, (...)

'Painting contains a divine force which not only makes the absent present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.' Taking up Alberti's connection between divine power, mimesis and friendship, this study explores the artistry of the Utrecht portrait specialist (...)