In 1270 Jacob d'Ancona, a Jewish scholar-merchant, embarked on a remarkable voyage from his native Italy to Zaitun, a vast coastal metropolis in southern China. Translated and edit...9999903394778Jacob (d'Ancona)
Abacus
viernes, 31 de octubre de 2025
A Black Guy's Guide to the ConstitutionFinalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds"After reading...9999903394143Elie Mystal
Editors Varis
jueves, 30 de octubre de 2025
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsTraces the story of an American rowing team from the University of Washington that defeated elite rivals at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics, sharing the experiences of such contribut...9999903392217Brown, Daniel James
Penguin
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2025
The Unlikely Story of Denmark's Revolutionary Bank RobbersBlekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark's most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers...9999903392088Gabriel Kuhn
Editors Varis
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2025
The War Memoirs of Major Dick WintersThey were called Easy Company - but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150 percent casualties while liberating Europe; an unparallele...9999903392064Richard D. Winters Cole C...
Large Print Distribution
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2025
The very name El Cid sums up much of the special character of medieval Spanish warfare. It comes from the Arabic al sayyid, master or chieftain, and seems to have been given to Rod...9999903391265David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Spanish ArmiesThe Republican Roman army suffered heavy losses as a result of the 'hit and run' tactics employed by the Hispanics in Ancient Spain. After preparatory chanting, the Celt-Iberians w...9999903391203text by Rafael Trevino; c...
London : Osprey, 1986
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
In 1870, after completing a 1000-mile trek across Canada, Lt. W.F. Butler, an officer of the British Army, recommended the establishment of a 'well-equipped force from 100 to 150 m...9999903391258David Ross
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex. The Kingdom of Hungary was a vast realm, at least the size of...9999903391241David Nicolle
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
State Troops"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides ?? not just the South ?? felt that...9999903391234Philip Katcher
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
The Apache culture of 1850 was a blend of influences from the peoples of the Great Plains, Great Basin and the South-West, particularly the Pueblos, and ?? as time progressed ?? ...9999903391227Jason Hook
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Few people will realise that at one time the Polish state was one of Europe's great powers. One of the chief instruments of her success was undoubtedly her army, which though small...9999903391210Richard Brzezinski
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They pro...9999903391180Stephen Turnbull
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Although the common Roman fighting men themselves have left no account, much literature has survived from antiquity. The wealth of archaeological finds, plus the study of surviving...9999903391173Michael Simkins
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
On June 27, 1862, with the American Civil War already a year old, General Robert E. Lee assumed personal command of troops engaged in driving the Federal Army of the Potomac out of...9999903391166Philip Katcher
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
By the end of the nineteenth century the fame of the Zulu was world-wide, and their army was one of the few non-European military organizations to have become the subject of seriou...9999903391159Angus McBride
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
If there is one thing we can be sure of concerning the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who inhabited the medieval world, it is that they were a good deal more advanced than some writin...9999903391142Terence Wise
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
The succession of the French Duke of Anjou to the Spanish throne in 1700 provoked the formation of a Grand Alliance to thwart the king's expansionist ambitions. Led by the Duke of ...9999903391135Michael Barthorp
Editors Varis
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Military affairs occupied a very significant place during Henry VIII's reign, with English armies seeing action against two main enemies: the French and the Scots, of which France ...9999903390947text by Paul Cornish
London : Osprey, 1987
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Osprey's study of the Normans during the Middle Ages. Despite the small geographic extent of Normandy its people played a crucial role in the history of the medieval world. Ferocit...9999903390916David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Osprey's examination of the Armada Campaign of 1588. In the latter part of the 16th century, Spain was the major international power and her leader, King Phillip II, pledged to con...9999903390909text by John Tincey; colo...
London : Osprey, 1988
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Salah al Din Yusif ibn Ayyub, known to his Muslim contemporaries as al Nasi, 'The Victorious', and to an admiring Europe as Saladin, is the most famous single figure in the history...9999903390688David Nicolle
Osprey Publishing (UK)
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Parthians & Sassanid PersiansThe Parthians were a warrior people. Though possessing no regular army they were superb horsemen and archers, and in time of war the nobility provided heavily armoured knights moun...9999903390664Peter Wilcox
Osprey Publishing (UK)
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
Though the 'Scythian period' in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the history of their times was such that a ...9999903390565M. V. Gorelik
Osprey Publishing (UK)
viernes, 24 de octubre de 2025
The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War IINew York Times Bestseller! By the author of A Man Called Intrepid. The story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorShe was stunning. She was ruthless. She ...9999903389934William Stevenson
Editors Varis
jueves, 23 de octubre de 2025
The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and MusketMagnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharp...9999903389309Holmes, Richard
Editors Varis
sábado, 18 de octubre de 2025
A Memoir of My Father's War and what Remains"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported...9999903388081Ariana Neumann
Simon and Schuster
viernes, 17 de octubre de 2025
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