Militares

A finales de la Edad de Bronce, los hititas llegaron a ser la potencia militar más poderosa del Antiguo Oriente Próximo, a pesar de que su imperio siempre fue vulnerable al ataque de las fuerzas enemigas y de que su territorio, Anatolia, carecía de ríos navegables, de acceso al mar y de una (...)

La lucha territorial va unida a la del ser humano. Nuestros antepasados más remotos crearon armas para defenderse o atacar y, con el tiempo, una de las primeras clases sociales fue precisamente la del guerrero, aquel que dedicaba su vida al combate: el soldado. Y unido a él, el desarrollo (...)

This detailed new study explores the battle of Leuctra and the tactics that ultimately led to the complete defeat of Sparta, and freed Greece from domination by Sparta in a single afternoon.The battle of Leuctra, fought in early July in 371 BC was one of the most important battles ever to be fought (...)

Imperial Japan's campaigns of conquest in late 1941/early 1942 were launched in order to achieve self-sufficiency for the Japanese people, chiefly in the precious commodity of oil. The Netherlands (or Dutch) East Indies formed one of Japan's primary targets, on account of its abundant rubber (...)

An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were long resented, and were the origin of the (...)

Allied success in invading Fortress Europe (the area of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany) depended on getting armor onto the beaches as fast as possible. This book explains how the Allies developed the specialist tanks it needed, their qualities, deployment and numbers, and how they (...)