In 1634 the Thirty Years' War had taken a spectacular turn. The great protagonists of 1630, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and Generals Tilly and Wallenstein were dead.The Swedish army was disoriented without the presence of its charismatic king. Chancellor Oxenstierna was to preserve his legacy, (...)
The Rif War in rugged northern Morocco is remembered for romantic films and novels about the French Foreign Legion, such as Beau Geste. In reality, the French intervention, although very important, was late and secondary in importance to that of the Spanish. Spain, had been fighting in North Africa (...)
Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Army. In Russia, the American Bell P-39 Airacobra (...)
Del estallido de las hostilidades con Japón en Manchuria a la Guerra de Invierno con Finlandia, de los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el este de Europa a la devastación de la invasión alemana, del inexorable avance hasta las mismísimas ruinas de Berlín a la sangrienta contrainsurgencia en (...)
Mientras Berlín se iluminaba fantasmagóricamente con las piras donde ardían libros prohibidos, los nazis llevaban a cabo un crimen cultural de proporciones aún mayores. A través de una pormenorizada investigación, en Ladrones de libros. El saqueo nazi de las bibliotecas europeas y la lucha por (...)
Una historia de periodistas, truhanes, espi as, afrancesados, buscavidas, jueces, canallas, masones, polici as, traidores, bonapartistasy algu n que otro patriota...en el Peru , Buenos Aires, Londres, Madrid, Filadelfia y Astorga de las Guerras Napoleo nicas