Militares

By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years. It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account (...)

Después de los desastres de la campaña de Stalingrado en el invierno ruso de 1942-1943, la Wehrmacht alemana estuvo a la defensiva bajo la creciente presión soviética. Este volumen se propone mostrar cómo los rusos lograron hacer retroceder a los anteriormente conquistadores soldados alemanes desde (...)

El olvido que seremos, de Héctor Abad Faciolince, extraordinario canto al amor filial y clásico contemporáneo de la literatura en español, emprende un nuevo vuelo con esta adaptación al formato de novela gráfica a cargo del dibujante catalán Tyto Alba, cuyos excepcionales dibujos y acuarelas dan (...)

The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development of relatively recent centuries. It was able to deploy huge fleets and dominate the seas around western Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East, as well as the great rivers (...)

The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. At this time, military operations were handled by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. The book expands our (...)

Conflicts between Christian powers and the Ottoman Empire displayed completely different characteristics compared to other contemporary wars fought in Europe, war without mercy being the norm. The tones adopted by Western literature to describe the Ottomans resemble the ones recently used against (...)

Felix Schlayer (Reutlingen, Alemania, 1873-Madrid, 1950) tuvo una vida muy singular y muy de su turbulento siglo, el XX. Ingeniero y empresario alemán afincado en España desde su juventud, tuvo una relevante actuación en el primer año de la Guerra Civil española. Aprovechando su casi azarosa (...)