Militares

La guardia pretoriana de Hitler pasará a la historia como una de las organizaciones militares más crueles y temidas. Este libro no sólo es un análisis de sus orígenes y de las campañas de guerra en las que participaron, sino que es también un estudio sobre las atrocidades y crímenes de guerra que (...)

Si en el imaginario colectivo, la lucha en el aire en la Primera Guerra Mundial se asocia al 'Barón Rojo', Manfred von Ritchthofen, no existirá nunca en la historia de la guerra naval un marino que supere a Lothar von Arnauld de la Peri re (18 de marzo de 1886, Posen - 24 de febrero de 1941, Le (...)

One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at (...)

Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced about a third of all Axis oil, and was Germany's single most important fuel source. In the summer of 1943, the USAAF (...)

For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique.To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus (...)

A highly illustrated account of one of Ancient Rome's most humiliating defeats, the battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, and how the embarrassment spurred the Roman Army on to eventual triumph.In its long history, the Roman Republic suffered many defeats, but none as humiliating as the Caudine (...)

A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt.With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front, Germany was reliant on its own facilities, (...)