Militares

La victoria soviética :de la caída de Rumanía a Berlín y Praga

Varias naciones desarrollaron diversos modelos de submarinos enanos destinados a forzar bases navales enemigas y atacar a las grandes unidades allí fondeadas, por bien protegidas que se sintieran, para desequilibrar un teatro de operaciones. Los italianos fueron los pioneros, pero apenas tuvieron (...)

Invierno de 453, Atila, temido rey de los hunos, fallece en su tienda. Su carisma personal, su habilidad diplomática, su profundo conocimiento del arte de la guerra lo convirtieron en un líder temido y respetado. En su breve reinado en solitario, apenas ocho años (445 À 453), puso en jaque al (...)

The Rif War in rugged northern Morocco is remembered for romantic films and novels about the French Foreign Legion, such as Beau Geste. In reality, the French intervention, although very important, was late and secondary in importance to that of the Spanish.The second volume of The Rif War begins (...)

Due to its successes against Austria in the first two Silesian Wars and the Seven Years War, the Prussian army is considered to have been Europe's best in the middle of the eighteenth century. Yet half a century later the once-mighty forces of Frederick the Great were crushed on the fields of Jena (...)

Napoleon once famously remarked If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it'. Louis-Gabriel Suchet was one of the few French commanders to leave the Peninsular War with his reputation enhanced, and the only one to win his marshal's baton in that (...)

A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.The British Army won a convincing series of victories between 1916 and 1918. But by 1939 the British Army was an entirely different (...)