Militares

En matière d'aéronautique, la mémoire collective garde le souvenir des frères Montgolfier et de leur aérostat à air chaud qui s'élève dans le ciel en 1783, de Pilâtre de Rozier qui, la même année, effectue un vol en ballon libre, d'André-Jacques Garnerin qui réalise une descente en parachute en (...)

The actions of Germany's armor during World War II are well documented and thus well known. Those of Germany's Axis allies are rather less so. Hungarian Armor in the Second World War gives an account the role of the Hungarian armored forces which, over the course of the world conflict, managed to (...)

SYNOPSISNEWS HEXES John Company, Para Bellum Isonzo 1917, White Plains, C3i 36 We're coming Nineveh, War for America, Strike Counter Strike, Snafu 12 h at Maleme, Saigon 75BOARDGAME Brothers at War Vendée militaire Kharkov Baltic Approach Harpoon V Europa Universalis Pax Pamir Task Force Stalingrad (...)

Tras un laborioso trabajo de investigación gestado durante algo más de tres años, el autor nos presenta una síntesis de una de las especialidades más desconocidas a día de hoy por la ciudadanía: el Servicio de Rescate y Contra Incendios del Ejército del Aire y del Espacio; viniendo así a cubrir un (...)

The definitive account of the Vulcan raids taught me something new on every page' - Rowland White, author of the bestselling Vulcan 607 A newly researched, fully illustrated account of how RAF Vulcan bombers flew a series of the world's longest air raids in 1982 against Port Stanley airfield, in a (...)

An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded. The Blitz - the German 'blitzkrieg' of Britain's industrial and port cities - was one of the most (...)

A gripping illustrated narrative of the Cimbrian (or Cimbric) War, in which the armies of the Roman Republic finally defeated the Germanic tribes of the Cimbri, Teutons, Ambrons and Tigurini. Rome's victory in the Cimbrian War was born of a number of huge and devastating defeats at the hands of the (...)

A fascinating exploration of the feats of the RAF's photographic reconnaissance aircraft. The photographic reconnaissance (PR) versions of the Supermarine Spitfire saw service against the Axis Tripartite throughout World War 2. Its superior performance even led to the USAAF adopting the type for (...)

Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, István Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet fighters ever built, the MiG-21 "Fishbed" was (...)

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the (...)