Militares

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 (...)

En palabras del autor, alto funcionario de la embajada de los Estados Unidos en Madrid durante los años cruciales que decidieron la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su libro es ?una historia de la victoria diplomática angloamericana en España?. Una victoria que consistió en lograr que la España de Franco se (...)

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 (...)

Occidente, o mejor, la cultura occidental, encontró su fundamento en la expansión europea gracias a la cultura cristiana, de manera que el concepto de Occidente resulta inseparable de su sustrato cristiano. Sin embargo, el desprecio de sus raíces culturales se ha convertido en el primer motor de un (...)

A fully illustrated overview of the USSR's bloody conflict in Afghanistan and its long legacy.The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a nine-year conflict until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988 89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands (...)

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 (...)