Militares

The Second World War was a time of tremendous technological progress in aviation with innovations such as jet engines and swept wings being brought in as engineers on all sides desperately sought every possible performance advantage. In Germany the quest for better aircraft resulted in some (...)

¡Sanitario! ¡Sanitario! refleja la labor en primera línea del Grupo de Sanidad 250 que estaba compuesto por la Compañía de Hospital, 2 Compañías de Sanida y una Sección de Autoambulancias. Blas Martín Jaume fue sargento en la 1ª Compañía de Sanidad y José González Gras fue soldado en la 2ª Compañía (...)

Los años 60 del 1800, el fenómeno conocido como brigantaggio en las regiones del sur de Italia es una historia de auténtico far west. Toda una población conquistada por un ejército venido del Norte, privada de sus tierras, de sus leyes, de sus tradiciones protagonizó una resistencia generalizada y (...)

Ramses II, Nabucodonosor, Alejandro Magno, Aníbal, Cesar o Atila: ¿quien no conoce a esos grandes conquistadores de la Antigüedad? Pero ¿cómo hacían la guerra, cómo asediaban las ciudades, cómo abastecían a sus soldados, cómo conseguían caballos para sus carros o madera para sus barcos? ¿Por que (...)

A completely new and original take on 16th century samurai history and Japan's military revolution.During the sixteenth century Japan's medieval period was left behind as the samurai experienced a military revolution that involved the introduction of rearms and the mobilization of large armies who (...)

Offers an overview of strategic skirmishes and overlooked battles alongside profiles of the contemporary masters of irregular warfare during the 18th century.Histories of the Seven Years War or French and Indian War tend to concentrate on the larger engagements. In the European theater, the (...)

A detailed account of the reconquest of Normandy and Gascony, including the battle which marked the first decisive use of artillery on the battlefield.The defeat of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Anglo-Gascon army on 17 July 1453 at Castillon on the River Dordogne, 25 miles east of (...)

The book describes and analyses the Kalmar War of 1611-1613 between Sweden and Denmark-Norway. Since Denmark controlled the Straits between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, Sweden sought an alternative trade route through the sparsely populated Arctic Lapland an option enabled by the 1595 Treaty (...)

This volume completes the study of the Tudor Art of War and is in effect a handbook for the Elizabethan army, which explains its leadership, organization, tactics and training and recruitment. It also describes how soldiers were paid, clothed, equipped and provided for or as was too often the case, (...)