La Primera Guerra Mundial fue el primer conflicto europeo del siglo XX. Dos grupos de estados poderosos se agredieron mutuamente con todos los medios que les brindaba la ciencia militar. Cuando finalizó, habían muerto nueve millones de solda...
La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue el conflicto bélico más destructivo de la historia, en ella perdieron la vida cincuenta y seis millones de personas en los 2.174 días transcurridos desde que Alemania atacó a Polonia, en septiembre...
En la mañana del 6 de agosto de 1945 el bombardero Enola Gay arrojó una bomba atómica sobre Hiroshima: en ese momento murieron 80.000 personas y ese número siguió aumentando año tras año a causa de las enfe...
Desde sus inicios hasta sus más terribles consecuencias, se presenta de manera clara y viva el tortuoso y a menudo sangriento curso de la Gran Guerra. A través de 164 mapas detallados y concretos se ofrece una información reveladora...
Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In speeches, books, and articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated generation after generation with their powerful narrative styl...
The complex and often turbulent history of Russia over the course of 2,000 years is brought to life in a series of 176 maps by one of the most prolific and successful historian authors today.
At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged into no-man's-land, toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. In the months that followed, the...
Named Churchill's official biographer in 1968, renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert has amassed exclusive archival and personal documentation to explore the statesman's famed affinity for and relationship with the United States. Churchill and...
"An epic history . . a picture of an Israel that persevered and prevailed, that was determined to survive and was unwilling to trust its independence to others but sought peace whenever possible." -- Foreign Affairs
The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War charts the wars political, military and social history through 257 new maps. It covers all the major events from the German invasion of Poland, Stalingrad, and the concentration camps, to the bombing of Dresden...
The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain's overseas empire. This new edition...