Militares

This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the grand strategy in the Eastern Theater of the war, the conduct of the Pennsylvania Campaign from June 6 to 30, 1863, and the plight of civilians caught up (...)

A fully illustrated study into the extraordinary Convair B-36 during the Cold War.Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 was to be primarily a '10,000-mile bomber' with heavy defensive armament, six engines (...)

This highly illustrated title traces the development of mercenary soldiering from individuals and small units in the African wars of the 1960s-90s to today's state-employed corporate military contractors.The phenomenon of mercenary soldiering has constantly recurred in the news since the 1960s and (...)

Hace casi ochenta años, entre 1936 y 1939, en tiempos de nuestros abuelos y bisabuelos, una espantosa guerra civil tuvo lugar en España. Causó miles de muertos, destruyó hogares, arruinó el país y llevó a mucha gente al exilio. Para evitar que tan desoladora tragedia vuelva a repetirse nunca, es (...)

A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the British Empire at its peak.In recent years the (...)

Este libro analiza el desarrollo de las unidades dedicadas a la guerra anfibia en la Armada a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Está centrado y detalla todos en los buques anfibios de tamaño pequeño, medio y grande que ha tenido la Armada.En España, tras un comienzo exitoso a mediados de los (...)

An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power.Operation Desert Storm took (...)

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day.In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a (...)

A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed (...)

A través de la colección de postales y fotografías de un divisionario prototípico, el libro se adentra en un proceso histórico tan relevante como la participación de los voluntarios españoles al servicio de Hitler en el frente ruso. El análisis de las emociones de un joven enamorado y ferviente (...)