Militares

The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.In November 1944, the US Army Air Force launched a 111-plane B-29 strike against Tokyo, the first raid since the morale-boosting (...)

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.The events that took place in the aftermath of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 are often overlooked by military (...)

This fully illustrated study investigates the uniforms and equipment of the US regular troops and volunteers from the territories fighting for the Union during the American Civil War.During the American Civil War, the United States Army, pitted against the forces of the fledgling Confederacy, (...)

Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II.Following the Anglo-French failure at the Munich Conference in March 1938 to prevent a Nazi take-over (...)

Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya.In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, (...)

A fully illustrated overview of the USSR's bloody conflict in Afghanistan and its long legacy.The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a nine-year conflict until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988 89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands (...)

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Carl Benn examines the War of 1812 and its significance in US history.The war of 1812 1815 was a bloody confrontation that tore through the American frontier, the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, and parts of the Atlantic coast (...)

Desde comienzos de 1954, España comenzó a recibir ayuda y asesoramiento militar por parte de Estados Unidos de América. Unos meses antes, en septiembre de 1953, se habían firmado en Madrid unos Acuerdos que posibilitaban dicho acercamiento y que otorgaban a los americanos el uso por parte de sus (...)

Un libro absolutamente revelador del arte de la guerra contemporánea, en el que un estratega militar de renombre internacional y un distinguido miembro de las FDI desentrañan los secretos que se ocultan detrás del improbable éxito, en sus inicios, de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel. Desde sus (...)

Pendant l'Occupation peu d'images ont autant choqué la population que la photographie du maréchal Pétain - le héros de la Première Guerre mondiale - serrant la main de Hitler le 20 octobre 1940. Pétain déclare alors au peuple français qu'il "s'engage dans la voie de la collaboration". Il termine (...)