Militares

En la madrugada del 6 de junio de 1944 los aliados, tras una larguísima preparación, asaltaron por mar y aire las costas de Normandía para llevar a efecto la apertura de un auténtico.

The art of successful night fighting was not something that could be easily learned. Pilot and navigator had to work together as a team, to think and move as one man. Lewis Brandon, a navigator throughout WW2, recounts his experiences.

¿Quieres ser un NINJA?Has elegido unirte a las filas de los legendarios ninjas que actúan de forma encubierta para defender la tierra de Japón de sus enemigos. Este manual secreto, del Gran Maestro de la Escuela Iga de Ninjutsu, al servicio de Su Alteza Más Ilustre Tokugawa Ienari, Undécimo Shogun (...)

La conmemoración del segundo centenario de la Guerra de la Independencia estimuló la publicación de artículos y libros -algunos nuevos, otros reediciones-, la celebración de congresos, pero no abundaron las obras sobre los aspectos estrictamente militares del conflicto. El magno trabajo de Arsenio (...)

El desembarco de Normandía el 6 de junio de 1944 y los 76 días de durísimos combates en Francia que lo siguieron fueron la campaña que marcó el principio del fin de la Alemania nazi.En esta nueva historia del Día D y las batallas en Normandía, James Holland, el principal exponente de la nueva (...)

El martes 6 de junio de 1944, las playas de Normandía, al norte de Francia, se convirtieron en un auténtico infierno de acero y fuego. Lo que para los Aliados supuso el glorioso Día D, para los soldados del III Reich se reveló, tal cual había presagiado su mariscal más joven, como el día más largo (...)

El análisis histórico de Matthews sobre la guerra incluye un examen de la doctrina de las IDF y Hezbolá antes de la guerra, así como una visión general de los problemas operacionales y tácticos con los que se encontraron las IDF durante la guerra.

An essential guide to the tanks that fought the greatest armored clashes of modern times, between Saddam Hussein's Soviet-supplied army and the advanced tanks fielded by the Coalition.The Gulf War of 1991 was the largest tank-vs-tank confrontation of the modern era, and the only large-scale tank (...)

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were. 1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were (...)

A detailed, illustrated study of Germany's Panzer forces that invaded the Soviet Union, explaining how and why they performed as they did.Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's huge and fateful invasion of the Soviet Union, was the culmination of nearly two years of European conquests. By the time of (...)

A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The (...)

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 (...)

The invasion of the Soviet Union saw the Red Army's vast tank fleets crushed by the outnumbered Germans. Fully illustrated and packed with data, this book explains how and why.Contrary to popular belief, the largest tank battles of World War II were not during the Kursk campaign of 1943, but during (...)

Royal Navy Monitors of World War IIBritain's battleship-calibre gunboatsA superbly illustrated history of the Royal Navy's World War II monitors gunboats armed with a single, large-calibre gun turret and their roles and battles around the world.When World War II broke out, the Royal Navy possessed (...)