Militares

Depuis une trentaine d'années, l'étude des ordres militaires au Moyen Âge a enregistré un profond renouvellement auquel Alain Demurger a particulièrement oeuvré. Derrière l'histoire politique, par-delà les rouages institutionnels, la recherche s'est toujours plus attachée à considérer les hommes. (...)

El autor hace un recorrido desde el concepto de defensa nacional hasta alcanzar una visión actualizada de la seguridad nacional, llegando a establecer una original definición de estrategia de seguridad nacional. Tras demostrar que la globalización obliga a establecer estrategias de seguridad (...)

Harpia Publishing is proud to announce the launch of a new title for 2017, EMB-312 Tucano: Brazil's turboprop success story, set to become the definitive English-language reference work on this revolutionary Latin American aerospace product. Written by an expert in the field, this book recounts the (...)

En la conmemoración de su quinto centenario, este libro pretende rendir tributo a la primera vuelta al mundo (1519-1522), centrando su interés en los descubrimientos botánicos de sus expedicionarios. Una empresa internacional con la participación de más de trescientas personas, que demostró la (...)

Los rumores de las intrigas que llegaban de Francia obligaron a Napoleón a abandonar el grueso del ejército en su lenta retirada para llegar cuanto antes a París. Durante aquel periplo de incógnito, Caulaincourt acompañó al Emperador atravesando países amigos y enemigos. Si nos detienen, imaginas (...)

A través de la colección de postales y fotografías de un divisionario prototípico, el libro se adentra en un proceso histórico tan relevante como la participación de los voluntarios españoles al servicio de Hitler en el frente ruso. El análisis de las emociones de un joven enamorado y ferviente (...)

A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms. After Georgia's independence from Russia in 1991, President Saakashvili invited NATO advisers to assist in military reforms. (...)

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.The US Marine Corps' uniforms, personal equipment, insignia, and weaponry are all described and (...)

Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest.In a country fragmented by Roman withdrawal during the 5th century AD, the employment of Germanic (...)

Para hacer la guerra se necesitan medios materiales y alguien los tiene que aportar. ¿Cómo conseguía el rey las armas, municiones, transportes, etcétera, que sus ejércitos y sus barcos necesitaban? El problema nos remite al concepto del Estado contratante, o comprador (contractor state) que negocia (...)

An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco.In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Morocco, marshalled a pan-tribal uprising that killed (...)

This illustrated study lifts the veil on the gladiators of ancient Rome, who provided a bloody spectacle for the people of the Eternal City and its vast empire.By the start of the Principate in 27 BC, the gladiator games were a long-standing part of the social and political life of Rome and its (...)

This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence.In 508 BC, the reforms of Kleisthenes established the ten tribes of Athens, inaugurating a system of military organization that remained in place for (...)

An illustrated study of the uniforms and personal equipment worn by the personnel of the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy of the Third Reich, from 1935-45.Founded in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, the Kriegsmarine was established in 1935 and reached a peak strength of more than 800,000 (...)

An illustrated study of Rome's key enemies from the Late Principate and Dominate: the western Visigoths and the eastern Ostrogoths.The Goths were a Germanic people who, under pressure from the Huns, migrated during the 2nd century AD to the Balkans, where they split into the Visigoths to the west, (...)