Militares

Una nueva y magistral historia de las cruzadasEn el siglo XI, un vasto ejército cristiano irrumpió en las tierras del Mediterráneo oriental y conquistó Jerusalén. Durante los doscientos años posteriores a la Primera Cruzada, el islam y Occidente libraron una lucha sin cuartel por el dominio de (...)

El relato de Symonds, que arranca con la Conferencia de Londres de 1930, muestra cómo todos los intentos de limitar el armamento naval acabaron siendo irrelevantes antes de que finalizara aquella década, al tiempo que en Europa estallaba un nuevo conflicto que enfrentó a las Armadas entre sí. La (...)

La historia de la mayor operación anfibia de todos los tiempos. Bajo el nombre en clave de Husky, el asalto aliado de Sicilia a partir del 10 de julio de 1943 fue la mayor operación anfibia de la historia. Ese día, más de 160?000 tropas británicas, estadounidenses y canadienses aterrizaron o (...)

In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the concluding act of a war that had started with the defeat of a Polish army at Cecora one year earlier. (...)

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 (...)

In 1632, the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) took another turn. Gustavus Adolphus's triumphal campaign in the Holy Roman Empire was halted at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, where the Imperial-Leaguist Generalleutnant Tilly died of wounds received in the battle Rain am Lech. The former commander of the Imperial (...)

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 (...)

A set of miniature wargame rules that lets players command armies from Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and India, spanning the Renaissance and shaping the future of empires.Renatio et Gloriam is a set of tabletop miniature rules that allows you to fight largescale battles from the Renaissance. (...)