Militares

Durante la última etapa de su exilio en París, Manuel Chaves Nogales nos cuenta en este volumen el comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la vida normal de la capital francesa ante las primeras invasiones y movimientos de tropas en el resto de Europa. Mientras sale a recorrer las calles (...)

En Historias de la guerra, Ennis presenta algunos de los relatos más desgarradores de valor y sangre en las batallas más violentas de la historia. Castillo en el cielo es la historia de los primeros pilotos de bombarderos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y sus increíblemente difíciles misiones, donde (...)

Este libro es una gallarda reivindicación de España y de sus métodos de colonización en el Nuevo Mundo. Avalora y encarece esta reivindicación el ser obra espontánea, desinteresada, y por ende imparcial, de un ilustrado escritor norteamericano, y fruto de sus estudios, investigaciones y (...)

Durante la noche del 22 de marzo de 1938, a pesar del tiempo ligeramente lluvioso, las tres Divisiones del Cuerpo de Ejército Marroquí, en una arriesgada y ensayada operación, ejecutada casi con precisión germánica, cruzaron el río Ebro a la altura de Quinto, sorprendiendo a las unidades (...)

The Second Battle of Sirte was a key naval clash in the Mediterranean, and a vital moment in the struggle for Malta's survival.Malta was the key to the hard-fought naval campaign being waged in the Mediterranean, a link in the vital Axis supply lines between Italy and North Africa. Struggling under (...)

A fully illustrated account of the World War 2 combat career of the Fairey Swordfish torpedo-bomber, one of the Royal Navy's most resilient and effective aircraft of the period.During the 1930s, the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm sought an aircraft to combine the functions of torpedo attack, (...)

A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The (...)

A world-renowned expert offers a focused, illustrated account of how Russian and Ukrainian armour fought during the crucial year of 2022, prior to the arrival of Western tanks.The invasion of Ukraine has seen full-scale mechanized warfare return to Europe. While Western armour and training has been (...)

Packed with illustrations, this is the first book to focus on the 'Transportation Plan', the air campaign to isolate the D-Day beaches from German reinforcements.As the invasion of Europe grew closer, thought was given to how to use the Allies' substantial forces of heavy bombers in preparation. (...)

The Spitfire endures as one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II. Nevertheless, its initial skirmishes and battles yielded as many challenges as successes, with German forces soon outpacing pre-war RAF tactics and exploiting the Spitfire's modest endurance to their advantage. This new study (...)

Reveals the tactics, technologies, and specially raised units at the heart of the Union's conduct of combined operations in the American Civil War.During the Civil War, as well as confronting the Confederates on land, the Union forces mounted several ambitious amphibious operations, both on the (...)

El estado socialista liderado por Stalin quiso contar con los mejores cazas para defender la URSS de cualquier agresión. A mediados delos años treinta, N. Polikarpov logró diseñar el biplano I-15 Chato ,que tuvo su debut en combate sobre los cielos de la penínsuladurante la Guerra Civil Española, (...)

A detailed, illustrated study of Germany's Panzer forces that invaded the Soviet Union, explaining how and why they performed as they did.Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's huge and fateful invasion of the Soviet Union, was the culmination of nearly two years of European conquests. By the time of (...)