Militares

Ciento ochenta páginas en las que el lector descubrirá quién fue el primer samurái, cómo fue el enfrentamiento entre los señores de la guerra, el cénit de los samuráis, las historias del Ronin, cómo era un día cualquiera en la vida de un samurái, las costumbres que tenían los guerreros, el arma de (...)

Aunque la mayoría de los humanos prefieren la paz, no existe ninguna sociedad que haya conseguido evitar la guerra. Ofensivas, defensivas, internas, vecinales o de conquista, la guerra siempre ha acompañado al ser humano a lo largo de toda su historia. ¿Por qué recurrimos a ella? Este ensayo se (...)

Cuando el Imperio Otomano entró en la primera Guerra Mundial a finales de 1914, la contienda europea se extendió a latitudes impensables como fueron las altas cumbres del Cáucaso o las milenarias tierras de Persia. En el caso de la Cordillera Caucásica, desde el principio, el Ejército Turco sería (...)

In late 1942, as part of its attempts to strike back at ever-increasing numbers of Soviet tanks, the German air ministry authorised the development of an adaptation and enhancement of the longspan Junkers Ju 87D-5 Stuka dive-bomber. The aircraft was duly fitted with two underwing pods containing 37 (...)

This book tells the story of the two squadrons 1/5 and 2/5, which made up the Groupe de Chasse 1/5 during the Campaign for France. A large part has been devoted to the accounts of the pilots and mechanics, and what they lived through together.The Groupe was credited with one hundred and eleven (...)

This book, composed of three parts, first of all recalls the design and the manufacture of the gliders, the creation of the flying schools as well as the setting-up of the program of pilot training. The second part is interested in the use of the American gliders on June 6, 1944 in Cotentin by (...)

The first edition of this historic text, an indisputable and virtually unobtainable reference, is finally reissued, reviewed, corrected and expanded. This book offers a wealth of information including a comprehensive overview of the intervention of German fighters in the skies of Normandy, the Ile (...)

A compelling account of the failure of Imperial Japan's Operation Ro-Go, intended to take the offensive in the Solomons theater of the Pacific War, but which became Japan's first line of defense against the Allies' Rabaul raids and Bougainville landings.By the midpoint of World War II in the (...)

A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy.After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US Fifth Army and British Eighth Army advanced up the Italian Peninsula. By October, the Allied armies (...)

Former RAF Tornado pilot Michael Napier chronicles the action-packed history of the Harrier GR 7/9, and its missions in West Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan over a 14-year period of ceaseless operations.The Harrier GR 7/9 was at the 'tip of the spear' for the RAF when it came (...)

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has mostly been overstated, with little due being given to the constraining conditions under which the (...)