Títulos en Ejército y guerra

In the year 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean Henry Ford revealed Ford’s newest vehicle, the Model A , and Ray Oehrtmann was born to Frederick and Mary Oehrtmann in Lafayette, Indiana, the youngest of five children. Little did his parents know that they would experience the Great Depression, that Ray and his brother, Bob, would fight in a World War, and that Ray would move to Colorado, where he eventually worked on machining parts for the United States space station, Skylab.

Esta nueva edición del diario del Che Guevara del último año de su vida describe los esfuerzos que hace el Che para lanzar una rebelión guerrillera en contra del gobierno militar de Bolivia. Fue encontrado en su mochila cuando el ejercito boliviano lo capturo en octubre de 1967. Nuevamente revisado, ahora incluye "Una introducción necesaria" de Fidel Castro, revelando las mentiras de una edición anterior, preventiva preparada por la C.I.A. para descreditar al Che y la expedición boliviana, así como también la Revolución Cubana en si.

Napoleón ha hecho correr océanos de tinta, sus campañas militares, su ascenso a emperador, sus derrotas y sus exilios han sido tratados de casi todas las formas imaginables. La biografía de Bonaparte que encontramos en Breve Historia de Napoleón, no obstante, pretende combinar las biografías basadas en los detalles más íntimos del emperador francés con aquellas que presentan sus logros públicos, en una obra de carácter divulgativo que recoge su conocida capacidad como legislador y estratega militar.

Robert Harris has brought Agrippa back to life in fiction. Now meet the real man. Marcus Agrippa was the man Augustus could not do without. General. Admiral. Statesman. Diplomat. Builder. Best friend, trusted lieutenant and son-in-law of Rome's first emperor. For more than three decades, Agrippa fought Rome's enemies, defeated rival fleets, negotiated with kings, pacified provinces, and transformed the city of Rome. His military victories helped make Augustus's empire possible.

As a commander of Delta Force - the most elite counter terrorist organization in the world - Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare - and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win - and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life. As the smoke clears from exciting stories about never-before-revealed top-secret missions that were executed all over the globe, listeners will emerge wiser, more capable, and more ready for life's personal victories than they ever thought possible.

Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. During D-Day and the Normandy campaign, these commanders of the 82nd "All-American" and the 101st "Screaming Eagle" Airborne Divisions refused to remain behind the lines and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their paratroopers in the thick of combat. Jumping into Normandy during the early hours of D-Day, Ridgway and Taylor fought on the ground for six weeks of combat that cost the airborne divisions more than 40 percent casualties.

Matteo Caccia ci racconta la storia di Karim Franceschi, nato nel 1989 a Casablanca e cresciuto a Senigallia, che nel 2014 parte per Kobane con un progetto umanitario, poi decide di restare in Siria e unirsi alla lotta armata contro l'Isis. Nel 2016 fonda una brigata internazionale che avrà un ruolo importantissimo nella caduta di Raqqa, capitale dello Stato Islamico. Nel corso delle 10 puntate sarà la voce di Karim stesso a raccontare la sua storia: le ragioni delle sue scelte, i sentimenti, le paure e le speranze in 2 anni di lotta accanto agli uomini e alle donne di Kobane.

Bat-Zabbai, como realmente se la conocía, no estaba dispuesta a obedecer. Se autoproclamó emperatriz y lideró sus tropas para deshacerse del yugo que oprimía a su gente, convirtiéndose en una de las figuras más fascinantes de la historia. Sus hazañas se hicieron leyenda, inspirando poemas, óperas y obras de teatro a lo largo de generaciones.

Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative...

UN ESORDIO UNICO. SALIHA SULTAN È ARRIVATA IN ITALIA VENT'ANNI FA, MA NON DIMENTICA IL SUO PASSATO. LA STORIA VERA DELLA SUA FUGA DALL'AFGHANISTAN. Quando i talebani tornano al potere nell'agosto del 2021, Saliha vive in Italia da molti anni. È nata e cresciuta nel nord dell'Afghanistan sotto il regime dei mujaheddin e anche se è passato diverso tempo non ha dimenticato la sua infanzia, funestata dalla guerra. La restaurazione del regime, oggi come ieri, rappresenta un'enorme minaccia per i diritti delle donne e comporta la chiusura immediata delle scuole.

"Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon" throws down a historical gauntlet. Author B.H. Liddell Hart argues that Roman general Scipio, famed for defeating Hannibal, outshines even the mighty Napoleon. Published in 1927, the book dives deep into their strategies, campaigns, and leadership styles.

Militar y político italiano, fue famoso a causa de su participación en las actividades guerreras vinculadas al proceso que finalmente produjo la unificación política de Italia, durante el segundo y tercer cuarto del Siglo XIX.

This is a US Army helicopter pilot's candid, firsthand account of his Vietnam experience in the air and on the ground at the height of US troop strength and then again when he returned for a second tour of duty at the very end of the war. It is a nonpolitical description of what life was really like for him and others who served in Vietnam. There is no embellishment or any secondhand stories from anyone else about their experiences in Vietnam.

Brought to you by Penguin. In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. At that moment...

В 1943 году дочь фашистского лидера Бенито Муссолини Эдда ставит ультиматум двум самым могущественным людям Европы: своему отцу и Гитлеру. Она требует освободить из тюрьмы своего мужа, бывшего министра иностранных дел Италии Галеаццо Чиано, обвиненного в предательстве. Козырь Эдды—дневники Чиано со свидетельствами военных преступлений верхушки Третьего рейха.

Fascinante, reveladora y poderosa, Francotirador la asombrosa autobiografía del Capitán SEAL Chris Kyle, el francotirador que tuvo el récord más alto en la historia militar estadounidense. En Francotirador, Kyle relata la extraordinaria historia de su carrera que duró una década. El...

La Segunda Guerra Mundial se alza en su inmensidad y complejidad sobre el resto de la historia humana. Un número de víctimas difícil de concebir, jamás superado por ningún otro con?icto; las masas de hombres, mujeres y recursos movilizados en una guerra que sacudió hasta los con?nes más remotos del planeta; la batalla ideológica entre el totalitarismo y la democracia, entre el fascismo y el comunismo, las pasiones y odios que despertó; el horror inimaginable y el fanatismo del holocausto; los juegos geopolíticos...

Al detenerse en su propia vida, Javier Lambán vuelve a su infancia y adolescencia, a su pasión por el fútbol o a los primeros chispazos de interés por la política. También escribe sobre la responsabilidad del cargo público o del papel de la enfermedad en su modo de entender la política. Sus páginas, repletas de referencias culturales, acogen el retrato de una generación, desde el tardofranquismo a la actualidad. La tierra y las gentes de Aragón son uno de sus personajes principales, un territorio sin el que no se puede entender España.

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever...