Militares

An illustrated history of the long Cold War careers of the US Navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized World War II-era Fletcher-class to the Forrest Sherman-class.The finest American destroyers of World War II had surprisingly long careers into the Cold War and the missile age. The (...)

Pocos ejércitos se han mostrado y demostrado tan eficaces, tan disciplinados, tan organizados y, por qué no decirlo, tan despiadados a lo largo de la Historia como las legiones romanas. La complejidad de su estructura ?jerarquía, armamento defensivo y ofensivo, multiplicidad de tipos de soldados (...)

A fully illustrated study of the French armies that were inspired by Saint Jeanne d'Arc, reformed under King Charles VII and eventually victorious over England in the Hundred Years' War.Saint Jeanne d'Arc remains a central figure in France's national legend, having ushered the country's flagging (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)