Novedades del último mes en eBooks de Historia militar

«Llegará el momento en que repetir la palabra"cártel" resulte un despropósito, un anacronismo,una vieja broma, una pesadilla mal recordada,una política de gobierno fallida y definitivamentedesmantela

Con Breve historia de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (serie ejércitos) se intentará proporcionar al lector un acercamiento a las fuerzas de defensa de este joven estado, planteando el tema de manera rigurosa y directa. A traves de las paginas de este libro, el autor pretende mostrar la historia de las IDF (Israel Defense Force) desde sus origenes. Durante el desarrollo del mismo se abordaran no solo aspectos y contextos historicos, sino que se desarrollaran elementos de su estructura interna como: organizacion, fuerzas destacadas, armamento, inclusion de minorias (musulmanes, drusos o cristianos) y de la mujer en sus filas, desarrollo e innovacion militar, operaciones reseñables, etc. Se pretende, de forma rigurosa, que el lector reciba una informacion clara y sencilla que le permita tener un conocimiento militar y tecnico de las IDF, lo que le permitira comprender la situacion en el Proximo Oriente de la manera mas imparcial posible.

"The Grave Marker by Walter Noble Burns is a Western narrative that explores violence, memory, and the mythmaking of the American frontier. Set against the harsh landscapes of the Old West, the story follows characters shaped by lawlessness, shifting loyalties, and the ever-present tension between survival and honor. At its center lies the symbolic weight of a grave markeran emblem of reputation, legacy, and the thin line between justice and vengeance.Burns, known for blending historical fact with dramatic storytelling, crafts a tale that examines how legends are born. The novel portrays gunmen, settlers, and outlaws whose actions ripple beyond their lifetimes. The grave becomes not merely a resting place, but a testament to the stories told about the deadstories that may distort or immortalize them.Through stark prose and atmospheric detail, Burns captures the moral ambiguity of frontier life. The narrative questions whether heroism is defined by deeds, by public memory, or by the stories survivors choose to preserve.The Grave Marker reflects on mortality, reputation, and the construction of myth, presenting the American West not only as a physical landscape, but as a realm where history and legend intertwine."

La última dictadura argentina no solo tuvo un plan sistemático de desaparición de personas: también montó una "campaña anticorrupción" orquestada para poder enjuiciar al derrocado gobierno peronista. En Corrupcion y dictadura, Martin Astarita detalla los mecanismos que desplego el gobierno de facto para acusar y castigar a exfuncionarios del tercer peronismo y otros dirigentes sociales por supuestos delitos de corrupcion. Fueron encarcelados tres expresidentes y una gran cantidad de ministros, gobernadores, intendentes y dirigentes sindicales. Hubo intervenciones de empresas y desapoderamientos de sus dueños. Como en Lava Jato, la palabra "corrupcion" reorganizo la escena publica. ¿Fue esta caceria consecuente con la prevencion de actos de corrupcion del gobierno de facto? ¿Se uso la corrupcion para encuadrar opositores, equiparandolos al "enemigo interno"? Con una investigacion minuciosa, Astarita reconstruye cada variable de la campaña anticorrupcion y muestra como se articularon sus distintos brazos (acusaciones, detenciones, intervenciones) y para que. Subraya, ademas, un aspecto muy poco estudiado: la dictadura recurrio a estas denuncias como delitos individuales y tambien como degeneracion social. En definitiva, la represion fue acompañada por un dispositivo anticorrupcion que ordeno discursos, causas y economia. Despues de leer Corrupcion y dictadura, la "lucha contra la corrupcion" deja de ser un concepto moral y se revela como una estrategia de poder. No deja margen para la ingenuidad, porque demuestra que la campaña no fue un remedio, sino la implementacion de una herramienta con fines politicos, ideologicos y economicos.

La inteligencia artificial no constituye un fenómeno meramente técnico, una moda pasajera o un capítulo más en la historia de la evolución digital. Su impacto, lejos de limitarse a cuestiones de eficiencia o de innovacion tecnologica, penetra profundamente en las logicas de la representacion, la deliberacion, el control, la participacion, la subjetivacion y la decision colectiva. Reconfigura, por lo tanto, los cimientos sobre los cuales se construyen la democracia y la vida publica en su conjunto.Democracia algoritmica busca ser una guia critica para transitar este nuevo escenario. Presenta un recorrido historico que examina el vinculo entre tecnologia, politica y poder; una introduccion accesible al funcionamiento de la IA; un analisis de casos internacionales relevantes (con especial atencion al contexto argentino); y un conjunto de formulaciones para pensar una inteligencia artificial compatible con la democracia, los derechos humanos y la equidad social. A lo largo de sus capitulos se abordan temas como el gobierno algoritmico, la transparencia de los sistemas automatizados, el uso de datos en campañas politicas, el impacto de la IA en los derechos politicos, la vigilancia masiva y las estrategias regulatorias emergentes, ademas de explorar el concepto de "ciudadania algoritmica".Frente a la falsa dicotomia entre libertad absoluta de innovacion y regulacion estricta y represiva, Federico Cerri Martinez y Christian Gribaudoproponen una tercera via: un modelo de regulacion hibrido que permita la experimentacion con las tecnologias emergentes y al mismo tiempo garantice el respeto a los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos, consolidando asi una forma activa de soberania tecnologica.

The great World War was more than two-thirds over when America entered the struggle, and yet in a sense this country was in the war from its very beginning. Three great inventions controlled the character of the fighting and made it different from any other the world has ever seen. These three inventions were American. The submarine was our invention; it carried the war into the sea. The airplane was an American invention; it carried the war into the sky. We invented the machine-gun; it drove the war into the ground.It is not my purpose to boast of American genius but, rather, to show that we entered the war with heavy responsibilities. The inven-tions we had given to the world had been developed marvelously in other lands. Furthermore they were in the hands of a determined and unscrupulous foe, and we found before us the task of overcoming the very machines that we had created. Yankee ingenuity was faced with a real test. The only way of overcoming the airplane was to build more and better machines than the enemy possessed. This we tried to do, but first we had to be taught by our allies the latest refinements of this machine.

HANNIBAL was a Carthaginian general. He acquired his great distinction as a warrior by his desperate contests with the Romans. Rome and Carthage grew up together on opposite sides of the Mediterranean Sea. For about a hundred years they waged against each other most dreadful wars. There were three of these wars. Rome was successful in the end, and Carthage was entirely destroyed.There was no real cause for any disagreement between these two nations. Their hostility to each other was mere rivalry and spontaneous hate. They spoke a different language; they had a different origin; and they lived on opposite sides of the same sea. So they hated and devoured each other.Those who have read the history of Alexander the Great, in this series, will recollect the difficulty he experienced in besieging and subduing Tyre, a great maritime city, situated about two miles from the shore, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Cart-hage was originally founded by a colony from this city of Tyre, and it soon became a great commercial and maritime power like its mother. The Carthaginians built ships, and with them explored all parts of the Mediterranean Sea.

During the height of the Second World War, Winston Churchill was determined to traverse the globe to rally the Allied forces in person. However, his advancing age and absolute refusal to stop smoking his signature cigars presented a bizarre, lethal challenge for wartime aviation logistics.Flying at high altitudes in unpressurized military bombers to avoid enemy anti-aircraft fire meant facing the deadly, invisible threat of hypoxia and freezing temperatures. Since Churchill could not wear a standard oxygen mask while continuously smoking, engineers were tasked with a seemingly impossible physical problem. Their highly classified solution was the creation of a personalized, self-contained pressurized podaffectionately dubbed the "pressure egg"installed directly into the cold fuselage of a transport plane.This highly specialized historical account details the bespoke engineering behind Churchills personal flying fortress. It examines the complex mechanics of early cabin pressurization, the intense aerodynamic testing required, and the sheer technological lengths an empire went to accommodate the stubborn eccentricities of its wartime leader.Discover the ultimate historical symbol of wartime executive privilege. Read this fascinating piece of aviation history to understand how eccentric personal demands drove incredible advancements in aerospace engineering and life support.

We interact with the internet as if it were a truly wireless, invisible web of data connecting the globe instantaneously. We rarely consider that almost the entirety of our international communications, financial transactions, and classified emails physically travel through incredibly fragile glass tubes resting in the mud at the bottom of the ocean.This massive physical infrastructure presents a hidden, devastating vulnerability. Deep beneath the waves, far beyond the jurisdiction of national borders, a silent shadow war has been raging for decades. Elite military submarines are routinely deployed on highly classified missions to physically tap into these fiber-optic arteries, installing covert listening devices to siphon off terabytes of global data without leaving a single digital trace.This extensive documentary research uncovers the perilous history of underwater wiretapping. By examining declassified naval operations and maritime engineering feats, the book reveals how global superpowers routinely sabotage and monitor the physical backbone of the internet in an unending aquatic arms race.Immerse yourself in the chilling reality of global data vulnerabilities. Read this meticulously documented history to understand how oceanic espionage shapes international security and why the bottom of the sea is the ultimate frontline of cyber warfare.

How did a massive deployment of the most advanced submarines in the world end in total catastrophe without a single enemy vessel anywhere in sight? The shocking truth lies buried beneath decades of military censorship and intense national embarrassment regarding one of historys most tragic naval blunders.The Battle of May Island unveils the fatal consequences of poor communication and rigid military hierarchy during the First World War. Under the cover of total darkness and strict radio silence, a massive flotilla of British submarines and surface ships attempted a complex tactical maneuver off the coast of Scotland. The result was an apocalyptic sequence of accidental collisions.This disaster exposes the catastrophic vulnerability of complex logistical systems operating under extreme stress. Panic, disorientation, and an arrogant adherence to inflexible protocols transformed a routine exercise into a deadly chaotic nightmare. The loss of multiple vessels and over a hundred lives was entirely self-inflicted by an overconfident command structure.By examining the mechanical and psychological failures of that fateful night, this book offers profound insights into the anatomy of systemic collapse. Discover how blind obedience and terrible communication can sabotage the most technologically advanced operations.

In the darkest, most desolate stretches of the Cold War, the United States maintained a relentless airborne alert, keeping nuclear-armed B-52 bombers continuously in the sky. But in 1968, the unthinkable happened. A cabin fire forced a crew to abandon their aircraft over Greenland, sending four thermonuclear weapons crashing into the frozen, unforgiving ice of North Star Bay.The resulting catastrophic impact shattered the bombs and exposed a lethal combination of military arrogance and geopolitical fragility. The covert operation to retrieve the radioactive debris from the fractured sea ice revealed the terrifying lack of preparation for a "Broken Arrow" scenario. The incident severely strained diplomatic relations with Denmark and highlighted the insane, apocalyptic risks of continuous nuclear deterrence.This meticulously researched book uncovers the chilling details of the Thule recovery operation. It explores the extreme logistical nightmare of working in absolute darkness and sub-zero temperatures, the long-term health consequences for the cleanup crews, and the subsequent desperate political cover-up.Grasp the precarious reality of the nuclear age. Analyze the terrifying margins of error inherent in complex military operations, respect the devastating environmental cost of geopolitical paranoia, and recognize how close the world came to accidental annihilation.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States military conceived a plan so audacious it bordered on science fiction: a massive, subterranean network of nuclear missile silos buried deep beneath the Greenland ice sheet. Publicly disguised as a benign scientific research facility named Camp Century, the true objective was to position ballistic missiles within striking distance of the Soviet Union.This book delves into the classified catastrophe of Project Iceworm. It uncovers the extreme engineering challenges of constructing a city inside a moving glacier, revealing how the unpredictable mechanics of shifting ice constantly threatened to crush the steel corridors and nuclear reactors. You will explore the profound arrogance of military planners who believed they could conquer the harshest environment on Earth with sheer technological force.Furthermore, the narrative exposes the geopolitical risks of the operation, particularly the fact that the Danish government, which controlled Greenland, was kept entirely in the dark about the nuclear weapons hidden under their territory. It is a testament to the dangerous absurdities born from global superpower rivalries.Discover the frozen remnants of a forgotten apocalyptic strategy. Read this book to uncover how Mother Nature defeated one of the most secretive military projects in history.

In 1943, the Allied forces faced a terrifying dilemma: how to invade Sicily without walking into a heavily fortified Axis slaughterhouse. The solution proposed by British intelligence was so utterly absurd, so deeply morbid, that it sounded like the plot of a cheap pulp novel. They decided to win the battle by utilizing a weapon that could not speak, could not fight, and was already dead.Operation Mincemeat is the pinnacle of wartime deception. British agents acquired the body of an anonymous, deceased tramp, dressed him as a fictitious Royal Marines officer, chained a briefcase of fabricated top-secret documents to his wrist, and dropped him off the coast of Spain. The goal? To trick Adolf Hitler into believing the Allies were targeting Greece and Sardinia, leaving Sicily virtually undefended.This meticulous historical account traces the grotesque logistics and brilliant psychological engineering of the plot. We uncover the frantic race to construct a flawless fake identity, complete with forged love letters and theater tickets, and the sheer luck that allowed the deception to infiltrate the highest ranks of the Nazi high command.Step into the shadows of the greatest bluff in military history. Operation Mincemeat proves that wars are not just won with artillery and manpower, but with audacious creativity, psychological manipulation, and one remarkably convincing corpse.

During the bloody climax of World War II, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) devised a psychological warfare tactic so incredibly bizarre and meticulously planned, it sounds like pure fiction. They realized that in the heavily censored and terrified society of Nazi Germany, the morning mail delivery was the only trusted source of information. So, they decided to hijack it.Operation Cornflakes was an audacious scheme to covertly inject millions of pieces of anti-Nazi propaganda directly into the German postal system. The OSS forged immaculate replicas of standard German mailbags, stamped letters with perfectly counterfeited Hitler stampssubtly altered so his face resembled a decaying skulland filled the envelopes with devastating psychological leaflets. Allied bombers then dropped these fake mailbags into the wreckage of recently bombed German trains, tricking the meticulous postal workers into recovering them and delivering the propaganda directly to German breakfast tables.This historical deep dive exposes the insane logistics and dark creativity of wartime counterintelligence. You will learn how counterfeiters, linguists, and spies collaborated to perfectly mimic the bureaucratic obsession of the Third Reich, weaponizing the enemys own efficiency against them.Uncover the strangest postal delivery in history. Witness how paper, ink, and a profound understanding of human psychology were deployed to shatter civilian morale and erode trust from inside the totalitarian state.

On June 18, 1815, near a small Belgian village, the fate of Europe was decided in a single day. Napoleon Bonaparte, returned from exile and commanding a reconstituted French army, faced a coalition of British, Dutch, and Prussian forces under Wellington and Blucher. By nightfall, the French army had collapsed, Napoleons political survival had ended, and the continents borders were about to be redrawn by diplomats in Vienna who had spent months constructing a new European order on the assumption that this moment would come.This book reconstructs Waterloo through regimental after-action reports, officer correspondence, soldier memoirs, Prussian and British staff records, and contemporary cartographic evidence. It examines the tactical decisions of June 18 in granular detail the delayed French opening, the failure at Hougoumont, the timing of the Prussian arrival while situating the battle within the broader strategic and political context of the Hundred Days campaign that preceded it.The narrative moves beyond the battlefield to examine what Waterloo settled and what it did not: the Congress of Viennas construction of a conservative European order, the myth-making that immediately surrounded the battle on all sides, and the long nineteenth century of relative great-power peace that the 1815 settlement made possible. It also examines Napoleon himself in these final weeks the strategic instincts still present, the institutional support irreparably eroded.A rigorously sourced account of a single day whose consequences reordered a continent and whose historical memory has never stopped being contested.

In the winter of 1942, a small group of university students in Munich began distributing leaflets calling on ordinary Germans to resist the Nazi regime. They were not soldiers, politicians, or seasoned operatives. Hans and Sophie Scholl, Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst, and their circle were young men and women in their early twenties medical students, philosophy readers, people of religious conviction who had concluded that silence was no longer morally permissible. Within months of their final leaflet distribution, they were arrested, tried before the Peoples Court under Roland Freisler, and executed by guillotine.This book reconstructs the White Rose through Gestapo interrogation records, trial transcripts, surviving correspondence, personal diaries, and the testimonies of those who knew them. It examines how these students arrived at resistance the religious and philosophical influences that shaped their moral framework, the disillusionment that followed early enthusiasm for National Socialism, and the practical decisions involved in producing and distributing resistance literature inside a surveillance state.The narrative also examines what the White Rose reveals about the structural conditions of dissent under totalitarianism: how isolated individual conscience operates without institutional support, how the regimes judicial apparatus was designed to eliminate not just resisters but the memory of resistance, and how postwar Germany eventually constructed the White Rose into a national symbol of moral courage.A carefully documented account of young people who chose conscience over survival and what that choice cost them.

Between 1936 and 1945, a covert Japanese military unit operated a vast research complex outside Harbin, Manchuria, conducting biological and medical experiments on thousands of prisoners Chinese, Korean, Soviet, and Allied without anesthesia, consent, or any pretense of therapeutic purpose. Unit 731, commanded by Lieutenant General Shir Ishii, tested plague, cholera, and frostbite on living subjects, conducted vivisections, and weaponized pathogens deployed against Chinese civilian populations. Conservative estimates place the death toll at over 3,000 within the facility alone.This book reconstructs Unit 731 through survivor testimony, postwar Soviet war crimes trial transcripts, declassified American intelligence documents, Japanese military records, and archaeological evidence from the Harbin site. It examines the institutional and ideological framework that made the program possible the dehumanization embedded in Imperial Japanese military culture, the administrative structures that insulated Ishii from oversight, and the deliberate scientific framing that recruited trained medical professionals into participation.Equally, it examines the postwar decision that allowed most Unit 731 personnel to escape prosecution. American occupation authorities, seeking Ishiis biological warfare data before the Soviets could obtain it, granted immunity to the programs leadership in exchange for research findings a transaction that shaped the incomplete justice that followed and left survivor communities without acknowledgment for decades.A rigorously sourced, ethically grounded account of one of the twentieth centurys gravest medical atrocities and the institutional failures that preceded, enabled, and ultimately protected it.

On August 1, 1944, the Polish Home Army launched the largest urban resistance operation of the Second World War. For sixty-three days, civilian fighters armed with improvised weapons held significant portions of Warsaw against the full force of German military reprisal while Soviet forces, positioned across the Vistula River, halted their advance and waited. When the uprising collapsed in October, over 200,000 Polish civilians were dead and Hitler ordered the systematic demolition of what remained of the city, block by block.This book reconstructs the Warsaw Uprising through Home Army operational records, survivor testimony, German military archives, diplomatic correspondence between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and the postwar testimonies of Soviet commanders. It examines the military planning and political calculations that launched the uprising, the experience of fighters and civilians navigating a city progressively reduced to rubble, and the still-contested question of Soviet strategic intent during the sixty-three days of fighting.The narrative centers the human dimension without sacrificing analytical rigor: the underground courier networks, the field hospitals operating in cellars, the daily negotiations between military command and a civilian population bearing catastrophic cost. It also examines how Cold War politics shaped the uprisings historiography suppressed in communist Poland, incompletely understood in the West and how post-1989 scholarship has worked to restore its full complexity.A carefully documented account of courage, political abandonment, and the deliberate erasure of a city that refused to surrender without a fight.

Before the Allies could storm the beaches of Normandy, they had to win a shadow war of pure imagination. The greatest weapon deployed in the weeks leading up to D-Day was not made of steel or explosives, but of rubber, canvas, and meticulously crafted lies.Operation Fortitude was a massive, unprecedented counterintelligence campaign designed to convince the German High Command that the main invasion force would strike at Pas de Calais. To sell this illusion, the Allies conjured an entirely fictional army group out of thin air. They built sprawling camps filled with inflatable tanks, fake wooden airplanes, and bogus artillery, all positioned to be photographed by enemy reconnaissance.This historical investigation reveals the brilliant minds and absurd logistics behind the greatest military bluff of the twentieth century. You will learn how sound engineers blasted recordings of troop movements through giant speakers, and how double agents fed a steady stream of poisoned intelligence directly to Berlin, paralyzing the German defense.Explore the fascinating mechanics of wartime deception. Understand how psychological manipulation and strategic theater saved thousands of lives and ultimately altered the entire trajectory of the Second World War.

On the morning of December 6, 1917, the bustling harbor city of Halifax was preparing for another day supporting the war effort in Europe. In the narrow straits, a French cargo ship packed with highly volatile explosives collided with a Norwegian vessel at a crawling pace. What seemed like a minor traffic accident triggered an apocalypse.The resulting detonation was so massive it briefly exposed the bottom of the harbor floor. It instantly killed roughly 2,000 people, blinded hundreds with shattered window glass, and leveled the entire north end of the city. Before the Trinity test in 1945, the Halifax Explosion stood as the undisputed most powerful man-made explosion in human history.This narrative reconstructs the disastrous logistics of wartime shipping. It dissects the frantic moments before the blast, the incredible heroism of telegraph operators who sacrificed themselves to stop incoming trains, and the blizzard that hit the ruins just hours later.Bear witness to the terrifying limits of early chemistry. Understand how a single navigation error erased a city and completely revolutionized global maritime safety laws.