Militares

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.The second volume of The Rif War begins (...)

Due to its successes against Austria in the first two Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War, the Prussian army is considered to have been Europe's best in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet half a century later the once-mighty forces of Frederick the Great were crushed on the fields of Jena (...)

Napoleon once famously remarked If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it'. Louis-Gabriel Suchet was one of the few French commanders to leave the Peninsular War with his reputation enhanced, and the only one to win his marshal's baton in that (...)

El carro de combate, también llamado tanque, fue una solución a la problemática de poder seguir avanzando mientras se está bajo fuego enemigo. La idea de utilizar algún tipo de construcción móvil como protección es también una idea antigua.Los griegos construyeron grandes torres de asedios (...)

La fascinante historia de un corsario alemán en la II Guerra Mundial, contada de primera mano por su comandante, el capitán de navío (retirado) Theodor Detmers, superviviente a la guerra.El Kormoran, al igual que otros mal llamados corsarios, el Orion, el Pinguin, el Thor, el Komet, el Atlantis... (...)