Militares

La historia y hechos de armas del 6º Regimiento de Zapadores-Minadores, posteriormente Batallón de Zapadores-Minadores nº 8, así como la actual custodia de su historial en manos del Batallón de Zapadores de la Brigada Galicia VII (BRILAT), invitan a la lectura de la presente publicación.En las (...)

El autor escribió la tesis doctoral del presente libro tras una ardua labor de investigación, bebiendo de fuentes documentales tales como extensas bibliografías de más de trescientas obras impresas,veinte manuscritos diversos, un apéndice documental de 149 números y otras fuentes diversas. Se (...)

The Dornier Do 217 represented the refinement of German twin-engine bomber design, a progression from the earlier Do 17. From 1941, the Do 217 became the mainstay of the Luftwaffe's bomber arm in the West, equipping four Gruppen for operations over Britain. It carried out day and night attacks on (...)

In 1634 the Thirty Years' War had taken a spectacular turn. The great protagonists of 1630, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and Generals Tilly and Wallenstein were dead.The Swedish army was disoriented without the presence of its charismatic king. Chancellor Oxenstierna was to preserve his legacy, (...)

The Rif War in rugged northern Morocco is remembered for romantic films and novels about the French Foreign Legion, such as Beau Geste. In reality, the French intervention, although very important, was late and secondary in importance to that of the Spanish. Spain, had been fighting in North Africa (...)

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Army. In Russia, the American Bell P-39 Airacobra (...)

Del estallido de las hostilidades con Japón en Manchuria a la Guerra de Invierno con Finlandia, de los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el este de Europa a la devastación de la invasión alemana, del inexorable avance hasta las mismísimas ruinas de Berlín a la sangrienta contrainsurgencia en (...)

Mientras Berlín se iluminaba fantasmagóricamente con las piras donde ardían libros prohibidos, los nazis llevaban a cabo un crimen cultural de proporciones aún mayores. A través de una pormenorizada investigación, en Ladrones de libros. El saqueo nazi de las bibliotecas europeas y la lucha por (...)

Una historia de periodistas, truhanes, espi as, afrancesados, buscavidas, jueces, canallas, masones, polici as, traidores, bonapartistasy algu n que otro patriota...en el Peru , Buenos Aires, Londres, Madrid, Filadelfia y Astorga de las Guerras Napoleo nicas

In 2021, as the Jeep celebrates its 80th anniversary, there is no doubt that itis one of the world's most famous automobiles. The utility 4x4 machine was designed to help win a war - something that it did with aplomb - and a legend was born, spawning both evolved models that remain in production to (...)