Militares

By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years. It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account (...)

The Roman Imperial Navy was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed, prior to the European naval development of relatively recent centuries. It was able to deploy huge fleets and dominate the seas around western Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East, as well as the great rivers (...)

The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. At this time, military operations were handled by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. The book expands our (...)

Conflicts between Christian powers and the Ottoman Empire displayed completely different characteristics compared to other contemporary wars fought in Europe, war without mercy being the norm. The tones adopted by Western literature to describe the Ottomans resemble the ones recently used against (...)

This book deals with a series of military operations that occurred in Portugal in 1762 and 1763, during the Seven Years' War, and which have been largely dismissed by the historiography. They are collectively called the Guerra Fantastica ,'Fantastical War', given the fact that the military units of (...)

Un libro fundamental sobre la Guerra Civil, una obra definitiva sobre las distintas visiones que nos aportaron los libros de todas las tendencias. ¿Cómo se nos ha contado la Guerra Civil? ¿Cómo ha evolucionado su visión y valoración a lo largo del tiempo? ¿Cómo la narraron o valoraron escritores y (...)

Este libro recoge con detalle y rigor la campaña del Pacífico que, por errores e incomprensiones de unos y otros, enfrentó a naciones hermanas. Destacó la humanidad y contención por parte de los marinos españoles, raras veces observadas en cualquier guerra. A nadie se le pasa por alto que muchas de (...)