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Un relato épico de la gesta que cimentó el primer Imperio global de la historia.Héroes españoles en Asia es un viaje apasionante al corazón más olvidado del Imperio español: su presencia en Oriente. En estas paginas conoceremos la historia de los intrepidos y anonimos españoles que surcaron el Pacifico y lograron asentarse en las islas Filipinas, estableciendo un enclave unico para el comercio y para afianzar el poder imperial. Un encuentro entre Oriente y Occidente sin precedentes. Esta es la historia de esos heroes anonimos que cruzaron el mundo movidos por la fe, el hambre y la ambicion de gloria. Un relato imprescindible que sirve de homenaje a quienes llevaron el estandarte de España hasta el ultimo confin del planeta.

In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly and drive the Irish people to support of the Irish Republican Army. The Bureau of Military History interviewed those involved in this scheme in the early 1950s with the assurance that the material would not be published in their lifetimes. A few of the contributions were made available by the families of those involved, but the bulk of them have only recently been released. This is the first book to make use of those interviews. It makes fascinating, almost unique reading, because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speak candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range. As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad and the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.

During the Second World War, two young Irishmen served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany, swearing the oath of the Waffen-SS and wearing the organisations uniform and even its distinctive blood group tattoo.Ironically these young men had originally joined an Irish regiment of the British army, and but for a twist of fate would have ended up fighting against the Germans. Instead, the pair were recruited to the German special forces after they were captured on the island of Jersey.Under the command of Otto Skorzeny, the man who rescued Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from a mountain top prison, they were involved in some of the most ferocious fighting of the war in the last days of the Third Reich.This account, which also covers some of the other Irishmen who sided with Nazi Germany, draws heavily on their own accounts and on state papers which have been released in recent years.