Militares

HMS Trincomalee belonged to a class of 38-gun Fifth Rates which can claim to have been the Royal navy's standard frigate type for the whole of the Napoleonic Wars. Built in India of teak, she is now beautifully restored at Hartlepool, and can justly claim to be the last of Nelson's frigates. As is (...)

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like (...)

In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 'Greif' (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's 'lost' strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built in large numbers, the He 177 would have offered the Luftwaffe the means with which to carry out long-range, mass bombing attacks against targets of a (...)

As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean colonies and the United States, the French (...)

En Vendée, et plus généralement dans l'Ouest, les décisions de l'Assemblée constituante ne sont pas toujours bien acceptées. Ici plus qu'ailleurs, les décrets sur la constitution civile du clergé passent mal. L'épiscopat n'est pas le seul à résister puisque, dès le 12 septembre 1790, des ouvriers (...)

Lorsque se joue le sort de la France, le général Bonaparte est à bord de La Muiron, louvoyant entre Le Caire et Saint-Raphaël pour éviter les vaisseaux anglais.Les armées de la deuxième coalition ont clairement l'avantage et les troupes françaises doivent se replier sur presque tous les fronts. En (...)

The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217 to undertake the precision maritime strike (...)

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II.The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during the opening years of World War II. This was a (...)

Drawing upon contemporary literary and historical accounts from the North Atlantic to the Arab world, surviving examples of weapons and armor, and practical experimentation and reconstructions by modern weapon-smiths and re-enactors, Weapons of the Viking Warrior casts new light on how Viking (...)

Las voluntarias de la División Azul es un libro compuesto por dos enfermeras que estuvieron en el Frente del Este durante la egunda Guerra Mundial: Montserrat Romeu Fernández y Ángeles Noreña López. En el caso de la primera, Montserrat, estuvo en el primer reemplazo durante el invierno de 1941 y n (...)