Militares

The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together.With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal Navy was able to put together a major force to (...)

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Germany or Italy insisted upon the transfer of battleships, (...)

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II.A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asian island of Borneo. Within eight weeks, the entire (...)

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942.By July 1942, the Allied troops fighting in North Africa, the multinational Eighth Army, had withdrawn to the El Alamein (...)

An extensively researched and accurate examination of the eight-month confrontation between two key World War II fighter planes in New Guinea.Although New Guinea's Thunderbolt pilots faced several different types of enemy aircraft in capricious tropical conditions, by far their most common (...)

An exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF's P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger's Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean.USAAF fighter pilots experienced a baptism of fire when flying the technically advanced but fragile P-38 Lightning over North Africa in (...)

El colapso de Occidente en África: cómo el continente se convierte en el nuevo campo de batalla por el poder global.El siglo XXI comenzó con la promesa de estabilidad en África mediante alianzas con Occidente. Sin embargo, dos décadas después, la región se ha convertido en un terreno de caos (...)

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 (...)

A mediados del siglo VIII, los escandinavos entraron ruidosamente en la historia de Europa hasta aproximadamente mediados del siglo XI, ya fuera como piratas, comerciantes, conquistadores y colonizadores. El origen geográfico de los vikingos determinó su expansión territorial: los varegos suecos se (...)

Los orígenes del ejército moderno en el reino de Castilla, siglos XIV-XV es una obra que pretende mejorar el conocimiento histórico de la hueste castellana bajomedieval en su evolución hacia el ejército moderno, a través del estudio y análisis de las transformaciones en su organización militar, (...)