Militares

Su entrada en servicio revolucionó la guerra aérea, otorgando a la Luftwaffe una supremacía temporal sobre los aliados. Este robusto y pequeño caza supo ganarse el respeto tanto de enemigos como de los hombres que lo pilotaron. Pesadamente armado, era capaz de desempeñar cualquier cometido en el (...)

Este libro rescata del olvido los orígenes de la Aeronáutica Naval española a través de cerca de trescientas imágenes, muchas de ellas inéditas, fruto de una exhaustiva investigación en archivos y colecciones públicas y privadas.Una crónica visual de aquellas primeras aeronaves que partían desde el (...)

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did. Contrary to myth, the Imperial Japanese Navy was not a shattered force after its defeat at Midway. In this book, Pacific War expert Mark Stille (...)

The first book to examine the battleship-led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding.When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was the most powerful in the US Navy. It was still (...)

D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector. The US Navy's Western Task Force.A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg. The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex (...)

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen. Fully illustrated, this explores its fighting power.At the start of World War I, the Royal Navy's forces were amalgamated into a single entity, the Grand Fleet, and (...)

Germany's legendary Atlantic surface war was fought by Naval Group West. Superbly illustrated, this unpacks the details of how it operated and fought. Having spent the 1930s on an ambitious but confused bid to build a new battle fleet, Germany began World War II woefully unprepared. Under (...)