Militares

Mientras el Ejército del Aire se opuso regularmente a tener que compartir el medio en el que ellos se movían, hubo sectores de la Armada que negaron sistemáticamente el reconocimiento a sus pilotos navales, incluso en lo esencial para un oficial de la Armada: el mando de buques de guerra. ¿Cuáles (...)

Una de las grandes preguntas que espolean la imaginación del lector de la historia del siglo XX es como pudo estallar con tanta brutalidad la guerra mas cruel de la historia de la humanidad.En este libro se analizan con total rigor historiográfico los acontecimientos socio-políticos europeos que (...)

Los dos tomos de "España 1936" son relatos en los que se funden dos elementos narrativos: el rigor histórico y la invención. Son dos libros de dicados a la Guerra Civil, escritos de forma vibrante y extraordinariamente vivos. Son relatos breves, cada uno de ellos ambientado en una geografía (...)

Harpia Publishing is proud to announce the launch of a new title for 2017, EMB-312 Tucano: Brazil's turboprop success story, set to become the definitive English-language reference work on this revolutionary Latin American aerospace product. Written by an expert in the field, this book recounts the (...)

The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift - and even, in postwar British hands, a tool in helicopter design - it was linked to some of the best-known personages of (...)

Sergei Kouznetsov, Alexander Rusetski Yakovlev Yak-1 Vol. II 180 pages 280 archival photos 30 sheets of A4 model making plans double B2 sheet with drawings sheets

Now firmly established as an authoritative but affordable summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, this annual combines regional surveys with one-off major articles on noteworthy new ships and other important developments. Besides the latest warship (...)

In the first of a potential new series Florian Richter presents colour profile models of every ship on both sides in this epic battle. In a change to previous paper soldier titles, these ships can be cut straight out of the book to create the British, French and Spanish fleets.

This book covers a little-known period of fighting in the Gulf of Finland. Its first chord was the German intervention in Finland and Estonia in early 1918 and evacuation of the Baltic Fleet through ice to Kronstadt.Through the entire year 1918 the Soviet forces were preparing their bases in (...)

Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in the Royal Navy's campaign. This is their (...)

Developed to meet a Soviet Ministry of Defense requirement for a fast bomber that would counter the threat posed by NATO, the Tu-16 was a ground-breaking project. It was the first Soviet medium bomber to feature swept wings, and it was built around a pair of turbojets that were the world's most (...)

En la Guerra Civil el fenómeno guerrillero apareció con mucha mayor intensidad en el bando republicano. Una de las razones que justificarían esta realidad es que, en la mentalidad académica de los militares profesionales sublevados, formada básicamente sobre la doctrina militar francesa, no se (...)