Militares

Tras combatir en condiciones extremas y padecer un ingente número de bajas, los voluntarios de la División Azul cautivos iniciaron un calvario de más de una década por numerosas prisiones y campos de trabajo de la Unión Soviética de Stalin. Durante ese tiempo, trasladados a pie o hacinados en (...)

A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route once and for all.The Arctic convoys that passed through the cold, dangerous waters of the (...)

A gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube.The 52-day-long siege of Budapest witnessed some of the most destructive urban fighting of the war. (...)

A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book examines how these fighters were conceived, their performance and the fascinating stories of their pilots.Italian fighters, such as the Fiat G.50 and Macchi (...)

The primary objective of this source edition is to provide readers with original documents, allowing them to form their own impression of the development, manufacture and operation of the Heinkel He 162. By linking this accumulated data with the historical situation of those times, we hope to have (...)

Le 15 septembre 1916, les premiers chars d'assaut britanniques montent à l'assaut des lignes ennemies, la nouveauté de la menace contraint l'Armée allemande à concevoir, dans l'urgence, armes et munitions capables de s'y opposer. Au printemps 1918, commence la distribution du Tank-Gewehr, fusil (...)

Loïc Charpentier, auteur bien connu des éditions Caraktère, nous livre le fruit de plusieurs années de recherches sur la Feldartillerie de 1939-1945 dans ce livre de 180 pages qui se propose de décrire chaque pièce utilisée par la Wehrmacht durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Analysés sous toutes (...)

A complete illustrated study of the varied range of Italian colonial units who served in East and North Africa.Italy only unified as a nation in 1870 and was late, and therefore impatient, in the 'scramble' for Africa. An initial foothold in Eritrea/Somalia, north-east Africa, led to a disastrous (...)

This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD.Following the emergence of a distinct 'medieval Indian' (...)

This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy's failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place.The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the ultimate symbol of the Axis powers' challenge to (...)

The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Close Support aircraft has become a legend over its long front line life. Known as the Warthog due to her unusual appearance, this little aircraft has built up an awesome reputation in the specialised ground-attack role, where her accuracy and deadliness are widely (...)