Militares

HMS Trincomalee belonged to a class of 38-gun Fifth Rates which can claim to have been the Royal navy's standard frigate type for the whole of the Napoleonic Wars. Built in India of teak, she is now beautifully restored at Hartlepool, and can justly claim to be the last of Nelson's frigates. As is (...)

The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on 12 April 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on 21 July 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135. During the 30 years and 135 missions in between, the program experienced triumphs and tragedies, amazed (...)

A finales de la Edad de Bronce, los hititas llegaron a ser la potencia militar más poderosa del Antiguo Oriente Próximo, a pesar de que su imperio siempre fue vulnerable al ataque de las fuerzas enemigas y de que su territorio, Anatolia, carecía de ríos navegables, de acceso al mar y de una (...)

En este libro sorprendente, que revela el conflicto bajo un aspecto absolutamente novedoso en la época, el autor demuestra que Hitler fue, con mucho, el ge neralísimo' mejor dotado del segundo conflicto mundial. Y de muestra de manera irrefutable que este amateur sin instrucción, este megalómano (...)

A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II.Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, during the 1930s, the German Navy underwent a programme of rearmament in defiance of the restrictions, building modern warships under limitations which forced (...)

A completely new and original take on 16th century samurai history and Japan's military revolution.During the sixteenth century Japan's medieval period was left behind as the samurai experienced a military revolution that involved the introduction of rearms and the mobilization of large armies who (...)