Militares

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 (...)

French Armies of the Thirty Years' War presents the development of the French Army, one of the first standing armies in Europe, from 1617 to 1648. It shows how Louis XIII and Richelieu exploited the complex legacy of the Wars of Religion to the benefit of both the Crown and the Country.The Three (...)

Ireland at the outset of the Tudor era was a highly militarized society, with more than sixty Gaelic lordships maintaining independent armed forces. By the 1540s, the centralizing Tudor state had ended the self-rule enjoyed by the Anglo-Irish Pale and was embarked on an increasingly severe program (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Chronicles the Piedmontese army's heroic resistance to the French Revolutionary forces from 1792 to 1796, detailing their reorganization, tactics, and the challenges faced in the Alpine passes.Forty-Four Months in the Alps describes how the Piedmontese army resisted the tricolour tide that spread (...)