Militares

The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant (...)

Explores the unique multi-ethnic British Indian armies under the East India Company.The armies of British India were, as one of its members wrote, the most extraordinary phenomenon in the history of the world.' Multi-ethnic, composed of men of diverse ethnicities and faiths, under the flag of the (...)

This second illustrated volume on the history and battles of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" covers the period from May 1942 to April 1943. Formations of war volunteers from the Netherlands or Scandinavian countries formed a significant part of this elite division. The unit was deployed (...)

The Wiking Division was the only SS armored division exclusively to fight on the Eastern Front. True, it was partly composed of volunteers Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian whose primary motivation - most of them - was to fight against Bolshevism. It fought with an energy never wavered even if the (...)