Militares

Desperta Ferro presenta esta obra clásica de la investigación de la historia bélica de la Antigüedad publicada por primera vez en castellano en un único volumen: La guerra en Grecia y Roma. En ella, su autor, el maestro Peter Connolly (1935-2012), historiador y arqueólogo británico experto en (...)

The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. At this time, military operations were handled by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. The book expands our (...)

Si hubiésemos podido contemplar con nuestros propios ojos los acontecimientos históricos que han marcado el presente estaríamos más cerca de comprender la experiencia de haber sido uno más de sus protagonistas. Sangre en la frente. La Guerra Civil en color propone regresar al conflicto que marcó el (...)

Austerlitz, Bailén, Wagram, Borodinó, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo son algunos de los nombres intrínsecamente asociados a las Guerras Napoleónicas, un conflicto que, a lo largo de más de dos décadas de lucha continuada, sacudió los cimientos de Europa, pero cuya onda expansiva se hizo sentir mucho (...)

This book describes and analyses the Manchu, or Qing, army in all its aspects. The emphasis lies on the Qing army in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, because this is the time when the Manchu military system developed its own characteristics and reached maturity. Furthermore, having (...)

In November 1500, Ferdinand of Spain and Louis XII of France signed the secret Treaty of Granada. This agreement enabled Spain and France to easily conquer and divide the Kingdom of Naples in the years 1501 and 1502. The treaty divided Naples between the two nations, however disputes arose over the (...)

Details the structure, tactics, and equipment of his forces, with battle analyses and scholarly insights.The Army of Alexander the Great provides a comprehensive account of the army with which Alexander conquered the Persian Empire. It details the organisation, equipment, appearance, drill and (...)

Confrontation of Kings presents, for the first time in English, the largest battle of the war of the Swedish Deluge (1655-1660). During three days of fighting, the Swedish-Brandenburg Alliance faced the combined Polish, Lithuanian, and Tatar armies. It was a clash between Western and Eastern styles (...)