Militares

Spanning 38 years of the 'Troubles', the British Army's deployment in Northern Ireland (codenamed Operation Banner) was one of the most difficult and controversial in its recent history. Over 10,000 troops were on active service during much of the campaign, which saw armoured vehicles, helicopters (...)

No hay mayor símbolo de separación que un muro, y no hay, quizá, muro más conocido, que el Muro de Adriano. El Muro de Adriano se construyó en el siglo II para separar a los bárbaros caledonios y pictos de la civilizada provincia romana de Britania, y aunque desde entonces son incontables los días (...)

Nada puede restar valor al hecho de que incluso en medio de la brutalidad sin precedentes de la guerra ruso-alemana en el frente oriental, Stalingrado ocupa un lugar especial de horror en la imaginación humana. No fue una batalla librada en mitad de la estepa, el desierto o la selva, sino en las (...)

This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen.The US Navy went to war in December 1941 with the tubby Wildcat, the first of (...)

Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest.In a country fragmented by Roman withdrawal during the 5th century AD, the employment of Germanic (...)