Militares

La obra describe y analiza la evolución de la guerra naval en el Mediterráneo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El libro completa el desarrollo íntegro de la guerra naval en el Mediterráneo, desde el inicio de las actividades el 10 de junio de 1940, fecha en que Mussolini declaró la guerra a los (...)

El libro 4ª Escuadrilla Azul recoge los tanto los diarios de vuelo como los diarios de campaña de la 4ª Escuadrilla Azul que combatió en sector Centro del Frente del Este desde junio de 1943 hasta febrero de 1944 combatiendo en la batalla de Kursk durante el verano de 1943.Comandada por el (...)

Verano de 1582. Oda Nobunaga, el primero de los "tres grandes unificadores" de Japón estaba cerca de lograr lo imposible, acabar con el terror y la desesperación causada por las luchas intestinas que habían devastado el país del Sol naciente durante generaciones. Solo había un camino, someter a los (...)

In July 1936, a pro-fascist coup orchestrated by General Franco tore Spain apart and plunged the country into a bitter civil war. Like Spain itself, the Spanish Navy was torn in two: crews and most ships remained loyal to the Republican government but many of the Navy's officers joined Franco's (...)

EDICIONES 98 rescata la autobiografía El terror rojo, de Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, publicada por primera y única vez en 1938 -en portugués- e inédita en español. En ella desvela su agónica peripecia a lo largo del primer tramo de la Guerra Civil española y presenta un magnífico fresco del Madrid (...)

This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare.Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of Augsburg was a military coalition of the Holy Roman (...)

In 1935 the USAAC wanted to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a 'Guardian of the Hemisphere,' and granted Donald Douglas a contract to build the world's largest bomber. The groundwork for the intercontinental bomber had been laid in the previous two decades by the courageous military and (...)

Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the country that invented them. This book is an ambitious attempt to achieve the next best thing - a level of documentation in plans, photographs and words (...)

With the publication of their previous book on the battleships of the Littorio class, the authors set new standards for the detailed coverage and sophisticated analysis of Italian warship design. Inspired by its success, both critically and commercially, the authors were inspired to follow up with (...)

The M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage, dubbed the Priest, was the most successful and widely used example of American self-propelled artillery during WWII. Examples continued to be used by the U.S. Army during the Korean war, and beyond, even serving Allied countries into the 1970s.

This versatile, rugged aircraft was a joint Anglo/French project and first flew in September 1968, becoming operational with both the RAF and Arme del'Air in 1972/3. The Jaguar's multi-role design made it easy to adapt for the ground-attack, reconnaissance, interceptor and maritime strike roles. It (...)

The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there were few roads, posed significant logistical (...)

In 1963, Eugen Sanger, became head of the Eurospace organization which promoted the 'AeroSpace Transporter'. In response to a Eurospace call, aircraft makers in France, Germany and UK designed recoverable, winged spacecraft. From 1964 to 1970 the French government led studies to evaluate the (...)

This meticulously researched history of the Luftwaffe's innovative, yet daunting rocket-powered interceptor is a revised and updated combined edition of the two volumes on the Me 163 which have long been out-of-print. It draws on rare archival and private sources along with the recollections of (...)

Organised chronologically by type, German Tanks of World War II offers a highly illustrated guide to the main types of armoured fighting vehicles used by the German armed forces during the conflict.Ranging from heavy tanks to self-propelled guns, from light tanks to captured foreign tanks used by (...)

Al final de sus días, Alejandro Magno había redibujado el mapa del mundo antiguo creando un imperio que se extendía desde el mar Adriático hasta el subcontinente indio. Sin embargo, su éxito no fue solo fruto de su propio genio y de su gran ímpetu, sino que se cimentó en décadas de esfuerzo y (...)

El Frente de China fue el escenario bélico más bárbaro y destructivo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, solo equiparable en salvajismo al Frente Oriental de la Unión Soviética. Sobre este vasto teatro de miles de kilómetros de frente, tuvieron lugar campañas de magnitud gigantesca con millones de (...)

This book analyzes original, eye-catching color variants and camouflage patterns introduced by the German Army late 1944 as used during the last year of the war, 1945. Throughout the guides 72 pages the modeler will find inspiration for the next project. The book contains more than 180 color (...)

Este libro muestra el camuflaje aleman original de los vehiculos utilizados por el Deutsche Afrika Korps, con variantes de color durante toda la guerra. Vemos los colores del vehiculo del ejercito aleman para la campaña africana, incluido el gris oscuro europeo (RAL 7021) en el que llegaron a (...)