Militares

La batalla de San Marcial es uno de los más destacados hechos de armas de nuestra historia militar. Derrotó el último intento napoleónico de mantenerse en territorio español y consiguió la liberación del País Vasco tras seis años de ocupación francesa. A través de memorias de testigos presenciales, (...)

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day.In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a (...)

A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter.Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of PQ-15 was sunk in May, PQ-17 was virtually obliterated in (...)

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.The US Marine Corps' uniforms, personal equipment, insignia, and weaponry are all described and (...)

An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages.There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years War (...)

Occidente, o mejor, la cultura occidental, encontró su fundamento en la expansión europea gracias a la cultura cristiana, de manera que el concepto de Occidente resulta inseparable de su sustrato cristiano. Sin embargo, el desprecio de sus raíces culturales se ha convertido en el primer motor de un (...)