Militares

This second, expanded and fully revised edition of the groundbreaking book African MiGs examines the role and deployment history of MiG- and Sukhoi-designed fighters as well as their Chinese derivatives in no fewer than 23 air forces in Sub-Saharan Africa. This first volume, covering 12 air arms (...)

(as well as their Chinese-built Chengdu and Shenyang variants) in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 2 covers 11 additional air forces, from Madagascar to Zimbabwe. This encyclopaedic account is so far the only one of its kind to provide detailed analysis of aerial conflicts including those waged between (...)

El protagonismo de los africanos en los grandes acontecimientos del siglo xx, como fue la Primera Guerra Mundial, ha sido sistemáticamente ignorado. Durante demasiado tiempo se ha omitido el rol de los soldados de las tropas coloniales en el frente europeo y se ha despreciado la importancia de la (...)

In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the (...)

In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King's African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic (...)

Esta obra presenta 559 fotografías, en su mayor parte inéditas en España, tomadas por miembros del Afrikakorps alemán durante la campaña en el norte de África (1941-1943). Fusileros, artilleros contracarro y antiaéreos, aviadores de la Luftwaffe, capellanes castrenses, carristas y ayudantes del (...)

El teniente Joachim Von Richter forma parte del Afrikakorps, la fuerza terrestre alemana que, a las órdenes del comandante Rommel, sembró el terror en el norte de África durante la II Guerra Mundial. A bordo de un Panzer, Joachim y sus hombres participarán en los episodios más comprometidos de una (...)

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US and British forces, strongly supported by air power, invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in response to (...)