Militares

La vida del general de la Armada española, don Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta, tiene todos los ingredientes de una novela de aventuras: un protagonista de recio carácter que no se doblega ante la adversidad y que como prueba de su valor fue dejando en la mar pedazos de su cuerpo; batallas navales (...)

Don Pelayo continúa siendo, aún hoy, un símbolo en la historia de España. Artífice del reino encantado de las águilas y de los rebecos , de cántabros y astures, no se saben con certeza los avatares de la vida del primer rey asturiano, ya que las primeras fuentes que lo mencionan son del siglo x y (...)

The latest book by preeminent Civil War artist and historian Don Troiani features 34 major paintings of the Gettysburg campaign and an introductory history of the battle by Civil War expert Tom Huntington. Each beautifully detailed and historically accurate painting is accompanied by a description (...)

This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen.The US Navy went to war in December 1941 with the tubby Wildcat, the first of (...)

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has mostly been overstated, with little due being given to the constraining conditions under which the (...)

An illustrated account of how the USAAF's might was challenged by the Jagdflieger and their heavily armed, and armoured, Fw 190A-8 Sturmjäger.Developed from one of the finest fighters of World War II, the radial-engined Fw 190A-8 was conceived as a heavy assault aircraft and armed accordingly. Its (...)