Militares

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. (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)