Helion And Company imprint: 162 books

Tunisian Tales

The 1st Parachute Brigade in North Africa 1942-43

by Niall Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011

Whilst many books have been written on the history of the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces in WWII, none of them have concentrated solely on the story of the 1st Parachute Brigade in North Africa between 1942 and 1943. Helion and Company are therefore pleased to announce the publication of Tunisian...

With the Red Devils at Arnhem

Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

by Marek Swiecicki
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

The Battle of Arnhem remains a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published shortly after the battle itself. The 1st Polish...

Sniping in France 1914-18

With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

by H. Hesketh-Prichard
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

The first volume in the new Helion Library of the Great War, a series designed to bring into print rare books long out-of-print, as well as producing translations of important and overlooked material that will contribute to our knowledge of this conflict. Sniping in France provides a detailed...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008

The Panzer Lehr Division was one of the most élite German armoured formations in existence in early 1944. Its baptism of fire was in the deadly Normandy bocage. Although suffering heavy losses in Normandy, the Division continued to fight in North-West Europe until the end of the war, seeing particularly...

Road to Königgrätz

Helmuth von Moltke and the Austro-Prussian War 1866

by Quintin Barry
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010

Before the War of 1866 the name of Helmuth Von Moltke was scarcely known outside the Prussian army. His appointment as Chief of the General Staff was in many ways surprising, and he certainly did not himself expect it. He was thus put at the head of a military institution that was already to some...

Most Unfavourable Ground

The Battle of Loos, 1915

by Niall Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2005

The year of 1914 had been a difficult one for the British Expeditionary Force, the war that had started in August had not been over by the expected time of Christmas. Additionally many of its original members had become casualties and replacements were difficult to find. 1915 did not go much better,...

Crucible of Combat

Germany's Defensive Battles in the Ukraine 1943-44

by Rolf Hinze
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Front from late 1943, in the aftermath of the Battle...

Diary of a Red Devil

By Glider to Arnhem with the 7th King’s Own Scottish Borderers

by Albert Blockwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2008

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit. Individual accounts are certainly in a minority and those from the lower ranks even more scarcer. Helion and Co Ltd are therefore pleased to announce the publication...

With the Courage of Desperation

Germany's Defence of the Southern Sector of the Eastern Front 1944-45

by Rolf Hinze
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013

In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Front from July 1944, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic...

The Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941

The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon

by Lev Lopukhovsky, Stuart Britton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of their...

War in the East

A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

by Quintin Barry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it, although public opinion in the West had been shocked...

Three Weeks in November

A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847

by Ralph Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

The political phenomenon known as the 'Springtime of the Nations' swept through Europe in 1848, toppling thrones, forcing old autocratic regimes to grant constitutions to the people and bringing street fighting and large scale campaigns to cities and states across the continent. What is not generally...

The Rzhev Slaughterhouse

The Red Army's Forgotten 15-month Campaign against Army Group Center, 1942-1943

by Svetlana Gerasimova
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013

Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat". Veterans called this colossal battle, which continued for a total of 15 months, "the Rzhev slaughterhouse" or "the Massacre",...
by Boris Sokolov
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers. The primary question explored by the author, however, regards the effectiveness of both the Red...
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