Militares

La batalla de San Marcial es uno de los más destacados hechos de armas de nuestra historia militar. Derrotó el último intento napoleónico de mantenerse en territorio español y consiguió la liberación del País Vasco tras seis años de ocupación francesa. A través de memorias de testigos presenciales, (...)

La guerra ha ejercido una importante influencia sobre la civilización y las estructuras sociales de la Europa medieval. Tiene, por tanto, una significación alta, tanto para aquellos interesados en la Edad Media por sí misma como para aquellos interesados en la guerra en sí y su lugar en el (...)

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day.In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a (...)

A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter.Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of PQ-15 was sunk in May, PQ-17 was virtually obliterated in (...)

An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets. As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still unwilling to surrender, Japan's last hope was to (...)

An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages.There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years War (...)

Spanning 38 years of the 'Troubles', the British Army's deployment in Northern Ireland (codenamed Operation Banner) was one of the most difficult and controversial in its recent history. Over 10,000 troops were on active service during much of the campaign, which saw armoured vehicles, helicopters (...)

Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya.In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, (...)

Nunca se preparó un plan cohesionado y general para la defensa de Berlín.Todo lo que existía era la obstinada determinación de Hitler de defender la capital del Reich. Las circunstancias fueron tales que no pensó en la defensa de la ciudad hasta que fue demasiado tarde para cualquier tipo (...)