Militares

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Con el desarrollo de la aeronáutica militar, lo que en principio se concibió como un medio para obtener información, evitando sorpresas estratégicas y mejorando el conocimiento del terreno, se fue convirtiendo en un poderoso aliado para ganar guerras. La capacidad del avión para el ataque y (...)

With the technology of the Hurricane being at the end of the biplane combat aircraft era, there was an urgent requirement for a modern fighter with a capability ahead of the anticipated German fighter development for the Luftwaffe. The Hawker design team lead by Sydney Camm created the all-metal (...)

Soviet bombers were a varied lot during the Second World War, ranging from single-engined biplanes such as the 1920's era Polikarpov U-2 to the excellent and modern twin-engined Tu-2 medium bomber. Although the use of four-engined strategic bombers was mostly limited to use of the huge Pe-8 bomber, (...)

La Guerra Civil en la Ciudad Universitaria es un ensayo globalizador que recoge la batalla que se libró en este terreno durante casi dos años y medio de contienda. Una lucha fraticida que se instaló durante largos meses en los pasillos, aulas y campus de lo que estaba destinado a ser una de las (...)

La historia de la mayor operación anfibia de todos los tiempos. Bajo el nombre en clave de Husky, el asalto aliado de Sicilia a partir del 10 de julio de 1943 fue la mayor operación anfibia de la historia. Ese día, más de 160?000 tropas británicas, estadounidenses y canadienses aterrizaron o (...)

En sus anteriores libros, Batallas de la Guerra de los Treinta Años Vols. I y II, Guthrie se centra necesariamente en la guerra en Europa central y Alemania, excluyendo los importantes acontecimientos acaecidos en Europa oriental, el Báltico, Italia y Francia. El presente libro viene a cubrir ese (...)

A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were all rapidly developed.For 45 years, the most disputed point in the World was the dividing line between East and West in Europe; here (...)

La Guerra Civil Española fue un momento crucial en la Historia del comunismo internacional y en las vidas de los comunistas. Muchos afirmaron, entonces y después, que en España vivieron sus ideales de forma más intensa, apasionada y plena que en ningún otro sitio. Incluso para los que terminaron (...)

During the Korean War and the Vietnam War, US Navy Special Warfare units played a variety of vital combat roles amid two of the deadliest conflicts of the Cold War. In Korea, underwater demolition teams (UDTs) surveyed beaches for amphibious operations, cleared sea mines from harbors, conducted (...)

The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world military history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for western military, diplomatic and economic matters. Most of those years were marked by conflict between major European powers and the Sun King's (...)

This 2-title series covers all fixed-wing combat aircraft operated by the US military during the Vietnam War, from 1964 to 1975. The first volume covers aircraft operated by the US Air Force.The book is illustrated with numerous colour and monochrome photographs and specially commissioned colour (...)

The German invasion of Norway was a pivotal moment in modern warfare, the first joint campaign that featured air power as an equal element of all operations. It was, in fact, the superior use of their air force that gave the Germans the decisive margin of victory and ensured the failure of the (...)

The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on Luftwaffe air power, air-landing troops, and the biggest airborne assault yet seen, a Dutch surrender (...)

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running.Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command (...)

A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse and capitulation of seven modern industrialized nations.On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany launched the invasion of Poland, employing a (...)

In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic (...)

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II.The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during the opening years of World War II. This was a (...)

This is the compelling story of an Eternal City brought low, of the terror and hardship of occupation, and of the disparate army of partisan fighters, displaced aristocrats, Vatican priests, Allied POWs and ordinary citizens who battled for the liberation of Rome. In September 1943, following wave (...)

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German cruisers that were in Kriegsmarine service.Author describes their history in the order in which they entered the service, devoting much attention to their construction, precisely describing the (...)