Militares

This second, expanded and fully revised edition of the groundbreaking book African MiGs examines the role and deployment history of MiG- and Sukhoi-designed fighters as well as their Chinese derivatives in no fewer than 23 air forces in Sub-Saharan Africa. This first volume, covering 12 air arms (...)

(as well as their Chinese-built Chengdu and Shenyang variants) in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 2 covers 11 additional air forces, from Madagascar to Zimbabwe. This encyclopaedic account is so far the only one of its kind to provide detailed analysis of aerial conflicts including those waged between (...)

In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and (...)

In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air defence system. Powerful, combat-proven and (...)

In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the (...)

In 1971, Idi Amin Dada, a former officer of the King's African Rifles and commander of the Ugandan Army, seized power in a military coup in Uganda. Characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic (...)

Esta obra presenta 559 fotografías, en su mayor parte inéditas en España, tomadas por miembros del Afrikakorps alemán durante la campaña en el norte de África (1941-1943). Fusileros, artilleros contracarro y antiaéreos, aviadores de la Luftwaffe, capellanes castrenses, carristas y ayudantes del (...)

El teniente Joachim Von Richter forma parte del Afrikakorps, la fuerza terrestre alemana que, a las órdenes del comandante Rommel, sembró el terror en el norte de África durante la II Guerra Mundial. A bordo de un Panzer, Joachim y sus hombres participarán en los episodios más comprometidos de una (...)

El 2 de julio de 1808, una joven barcelonesa se encontraba sumida en el fragor del sitio de Zaragoza por los franceses. Agustina Zaragoza Domènech, que pasaría a la historia como Agustina de Aragón, fue testigo de la carnicería desatada por las tropas napoleónicas, y, en un acto de arrojo, disparó (...)

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. (...)