Militares

En este segundo volumen y partiendo de la consideración de que efectivamente la batalla de Las Dunas supuso un cambio de orientación en la lucha, al pasar de la ofensiva a la defensiva, ante la magnitud y variedad de los distintos frentes de batalla, y ante el agotamiento en todos los órdenes del (...)

En estas memorias, Wilhelm Johnen narra sus experiencias como piloto de caza nocturnade la Lutfwaffe durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en la que realizó 306 misiones y derribó 34 aparatos enemigos, en su mayoría bombarderos cuatrimotor. A las 20:15 del 20 de julio de 1940, un bimotor británico (...)

Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the (...)

Quel cycliste parcourant les marais salants des environs de Loix ou quel estivant nageant à la pointe des Sablanceaux se doute que ces lieux paisibles ont été les témoins d'affrontements sanglants lors d'une tentative de conquête de l'île de Ré en 1627. Cette année-là, au lendemain des guerres de (...)

Au début de l'été 57 précédent la naissance du Christ, c'est-à-dire dans la deuxième partie de mai, cinq ans avant Alésia, César a virtuellement gagné ici la guerre des Gaules. Le génie de cet homme, la supériorité non contestable d'une race appelée à dominer l'univers connu, auraient tôt ou tard, (...)

Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zerstoerer ('destroyer' or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939. However, due to a lack of sufficient flight-testing before being declared service-ready, the Me 210 suffered from a less than satisfactory (...)

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of (...)

Este libro explica en treinta capítulos la aventura inquietante que suponían las peregrinaciones en la Edad Media. Resulta admirable la fortaleza espiritual y física de aquellas gentes que se echaban al camino y se enfrentaban a lenguas y costumbres extrañas, con el único afán de llegar hasta (...)

En la presente colección no podía faltar la voz de Francisco Franco Bahamonde, como máximo representante del bando de los vencedores de la guerra civil española, en nuestro empeño de rescatar las voces de los protagonistas de la contienda, junto a Federica Montseny, Rafael García Serrano, Indalecio (...)

La compleja historia del Servicio militar, las formas de eludirlo y las consecuencias sociales de las quintas es el objeto del estudio de Valentina Fernández Vargas. SANGRE O DINERO es una obra singular por la diversidad de sus contenidos en la que se trata de forma completa los problemas (...)

"¿De quién pueden estar las mayores posibilidades del triunfo en una guerra? De quién tenga más medios, de quien disponga de más elementos. Ello es evidentísimo. Pues bien: extensa cual es la sublevación militar que estamos combatiendo, los medios de que dispone son inferiores en grado sumo a los (...)

As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean colonies and the United States, the French (...)

Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured (...)

The army of the German Empire was born out of the once great Prussian army that Napoleon Bonaparte had humbled at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt in 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars. The eventual defeat of Napoleon initiated a slow process of military reform that gained momentum during the pan-German (...)

During the 14th and 15th centuries military tactics in Europe underwent a period of sustained transformation of which the outcome was the rejuvenation of the footsoldier as the major tactical unit. One nation alone stands principally responsible for this development - the Swiss Confederation. For (...)

Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies and primarily designed for the defence of trade, (...)

The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war even the inevitability of British participation arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about access (...)

Now moving into its second decade, The Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an affordable yet authoritative summary of global naval developments over the past twelve months. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-depth articles from a (...)

En este libro se recopilan los principales documentos conservados sobre la expedición emprendida por Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entre 1540 y 1542 a la vasta región del Medio Oeste de los actuales Estados Unidos de América, en una ruta que le condujo por Arizona, Nuevo México, Texas y Oklahoma (...)