Militares

An illustrated identificationguide to all the types of mobile field artillery (wheeled) adopted for serviceby US military forces (Army, Navy, Marine Corps) in the modernera. Covers the period from 1875 and the first breechloading, rifledguns through types adopted during the Korean War. Major types (...)

Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the country that invented them. This book is an ambitious attempt to achieve the next best thing - a level of documentation in plans, photographs and words (...)

With the publication of their previous book on the battleships of the Littorio class, the authors set new standards for the detailed coverage and sophisticated analysis of Italian warship design. Inspired by its success, both critically and commercially, the authors were inspired to follow up with (...)

Un siecle de sang s'acheve. Commence avec la Guerre de Succession d'Espagne sous le regne d'un Louis XIV age, il s'acheve par la guerre d'independance des Etats-Unis et celles des premieres annees de la Revolution. Desormais, on trouve a la tete de la France, un " triumvirat ". Tous, sauf (...)

The project of writing a two-volume, richly illustrated study of the German armoured unit, the (Wiener) 2.Panzer-Division, is to be completed in 2016. The author, Fre de ric Deprun, has devoted more than ten years to studying meticulously this armoured unit's engagements in the Norman bocage. The (...)

The Wiking division was the only armoured SS division to fight exclusively on the Eastern Front.It is true that it was partly composed of Flemish, Dutch and Scandinavian volunteers whose primary motivation for most of them , was to fight against Bolshevism.It would have been a political mistake to (...)

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 (...)