Militares

En este segundo volumen y partiendo de la consideración de que efectivamente la batalla de Las Dunas supuso un cambio de orientación en la lucha, al pasar de la ofensiva a la defensiva, ante la magnitud y variedad de los distintos frentes de batalla, y ante el agotamiento en todos los órdenes del (...)

UNA IMPRESIONANTE RECREACIÓN DE LA BATALLA AERONAVAL MÁS IMPORTANTE DE LA II GUERRA MUNDIAL Pintor oficial de la Marina, Jean-Yves Delitte nos propone con esta colección sumergirnos en el corazón de las mayores batallas navales de la historia, desde la Antigüedad hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (...)

Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963 66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the (...)

Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight. But their success over the cold and windswept (...)

Esta publicación recoge los resultados de la exposición 1939. El exilio republicano español, que conmemora los ochenta años cumplidos desde el fin de la Guerra Civil española y el inicio de la dictadura franquista. En ella se traza una cartografía de los desplazamientos y las tierras de acogida de (...)

Los fascinantes relatos de los extranjeros que viajaron por la Alemania nazi.Los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en la Alemania de entreguerras fueron terribles, pero ¿era realmente posible saber lo que sucedía, captar la esencia del nacionalsocialismo o predecir el Holocausto? Viajeros en el (...)

The army of the German Empire was born out of the once great Prussian army that Napoleon Bonaparte had humbled at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt in 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars. The eventual defeat of Napoleon initiated a slow process of military reform that gained momentum during the pan-German (...)

During the 14th and 15th centuries military tactics in Europe underwent a period of sustained transformation of which the outcome was the rejuvenation of the footsoldier as the major tactical unit. One nation alone stands principally responsible for this development - the Swiss Confederation. For (...)

Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies and primarily designed for the defence of trade, (...)

The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war even the inevitability of British participation arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about access (...)

Now moving into its second decade, The Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an affordable yet authoritative summary of global naval developments over the past twelve months. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-depth articles from a (...)

En este libro se recopilan los principales documentos conservados sobre la expedición emprendida por Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entre 1540 y 1542 a la vasta región del Medio Oeste de los actuales Estados Unidos de América, en una ruta que le condujo por Arizona, Nuevo México, Texas y Oklahoma (...)