Militares

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. (...)

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 (...)