Libros

An in-depth study of the ground campaign led by the US and Coalition forces against Iraq in the Gulf War.In 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, precipitating an eight-year war. By the end of the 1980s, Iraq was bankrupt, having amassed enormous debts, and oil-rich neighboring Kuwait, which Iraq had long (...)

An illustrated study of the famous Heinkel He 219 the Luftwaffe's only pupose-built nightfighter and its role in the bitterly contested nocturnal defence of the Reich.Originally conceived as a high-performance reconnaissance aircraft, the Heinkel He 219 went on to become the Luftwaffe's only (...)

This insightful illustrated study investigates how the Royal Navy lost two battleships and three aircraft carriers to German U-boats during 1939 42.During World War II, over half of Britain's capital ship losses were due to U-boats, as Germany's submarines sought to deplete the Royal Navy's (...)

An illustrated study of the development and operations of coalition and Afghan Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan from 2009 until the withdrawal in 2021.At the end of 2008, the clearly inadequate strength of the coalition's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan (...)

Fiercely fought with all the latest weaponry of World War I, Italy's Adriatic campaign is the forgotten war of the dreadnought era. Fully illustrated, this is its first history in English.Fought across the narrowest naval frontline of World War I, with almost daily combat, the Adriatic Sea was (...)

¿Por qué un concepto tan irracional como la aristocracia de sangre ha mantenido vigencia durante casi un milenio? ¿De qué modo intentan perpetuarse las élites en la actualidad?.Heredar el mérito es un ensayo penetrante y original sobre este empeño dinástico que ha perseguido toda clase dirigente, (...)

El fotógrafo Adrian Tyler nos lleva de la mano en este bello libro por una onírica ruta de casas bajas, cobertizos, graneros, galpones y paredones, elementos que trazan una caligrafía española de inesperada riqueza cromática y compositiva. Su significación antropológica es sutil y ambigua. Habla de (...)

Die ungarische Hauptstadt bietet Freunden des städtischen Schienennahverkehrs eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Verkehrsmittel, von der klassischen Stra enbahn über vier unterschiedliche U-Bahn-Linien (darunter die älteste Untergrundbahn auf dem europäischen Festland sowie eine fahrerlose Linie) und (...)

This fully illustrated study explains the British Pacific Fleet's campaign against the Japanese in the Sakishima Islands, its overlooked role in the battle for Okinawa.The invasion of Okinawa was, famously, the culmination of the United States' island-hopping campaign. Less well known is the fact (...)