Libros

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

Joseph Mengele (1911-1979) se ha convertido en el símbolo de la perversión de la medicina en la época del Tercer Reich y activo exponente de las teorías racistas del pensamiento nazi. Su sonrisa burlona y su tacto, suave pero mortal, hicieron que se le apodara "el ángel de la Muerte".Especialista (...)

Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy. At first taking mercenary employment with Lombard rulers then fighting the (...)

A complete illustrated study of the varied range of Italian colonial units who served in East and North Africa.Italy only unified as a nation in 1870 and was late, and therefore impatient, in the 'scramble' for Africa. An initial foothold in Eritrea/Somalia, north-east Africa, led to a disastrous (...)

This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD.Following the emergence of a distinct 'medieval Indian' (...)

Cuando oigo a la gente decir que se han sentido inspirados por la mentalidad mamba, pienso que todo mi trabajo, todo mi esfuerzo y todo el sudor, ha merecido la pena. Por eso he escrito este libro. Todas las páginas contienen enseñanzas, no sólo sobre el baloncesto, sino también sobre la mentalidad (...)

A lo largo de la historia, el pasado ha sido utilizado ?y (re)escrito? como arma política para justificar toda una serie de discursos ideológicos que manipulan y resignifican nuestros espacios: hablamos de las evidencias físicas, desde los monumentos conmemorativos hasta los vestigios que podemos (...)