Militares

Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, István Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet fighters ever built, the MiG-21 "Fishbed" was (...)

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the (...)

Tras el cruento ciclo de batallas en torno a Madrid que se sucedieron durante el primer invierno de la Guerra Civil española, parecería que la lucha en los flancos de la capital se había extinguido. Pero en los frentes estabilizados de Toledo y Guadalajara la matanza no había hecho más que empezar. (...)

Tras el asesinato de Julio César en el 44 a. C., fueron dos los hombres que se disputaban el mandato de la todopoderosa Roma: Marco Antonio y el heredero elegido por el propio César, el joven Octavio, futuro Augusto. Pero Marco Antonio se enamoró de la mujer más poderosa del mundo, la gobernante (...)

Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US and British forces, strongly supported by air power, invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in response to (...)

A spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which saw the last combat of America's legendary B-29s. Just five years after they defeated Japan, at the dawn of the jet age, the most advanced bomber of World War II was already obsolescent. (...)