Militares

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 (...)

Los breves, pero intensos capitulos de este libro, permiten al lector conocer la forma de ingresar en la Orden, el modo de batallar, la vida cotidiana, los procesos que contra ellos se siguieron en toda Europa, especialmente en Francia, pero también en las coronas de Castilla y Aragon, y el modo en (...)

Los retos o rieptos y los desafios servian para hacer justicia y reparar el honor dañado. No era suficiente con la justicia civil cuando el honor de un caballero quedaba empañado por un insulto publico, una traicion amorosa, o por el simple hecho de ser cuestionado en la veracidad de sus palabras.

The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post-war the army, focusing on the (...)

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she (...)

During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. (...)

The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the (...)

The armoured car has an important place in the early history of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) - they were the most important AFV during the Russian Civil War and figured prominently in the mechanization of the Red Army that began in late 1929. The 1930s saw the development and production (...)

Este libro estudia a un grupo humano que hizo de la milicia su vocación y sirvió a España hasta sus últimas consecuencias: la familia Ímaz Echavarri. De sus seis miembros militares, uno quedó mutilado en la Guerra de Cuba, cuatro sirvieron en el Tercio de Extranjeros, dos murieron en combate (...)

En este libro, además las láminas realizadas por el autor, se incluyen numerosas fotografías de época, insignias y objetos de militaria de su colección.Para obtener mayor exactitud de la veracidad de los uniformes, el autor efectuó innumerables entrevistas a antiguos componentes de estas unidades, (...)

El periodista Hans Heusser vivía en Madrid, en julio de 1936.Era corresponsal del periódico suizo Basler Nachrichten y presenció la lucha por la capital española desde su comienzo. Como tal observador, su juicio de lo que vivió en Madrid los primeros meses de la contienda es totalmente objetivo, y (...)