Helion And Company imprint: 162 books

Days of Battle

Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45

by Norbert Számvéber
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013

Days of Battle describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. Dr Norbert Számvéber the presents detailed accounts of four important clashes of German-Hungarian and Soviet armor north of the river Danube, in the southern territory of the historical Upper...

Airborne Armour

Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 1938-50

by Keith Flint
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2004

Despite all the works on airborne forces published since 1945, the full story of Britain's 'airborne armour' has remained untold. This book is intended to correct that omission. The story has two main strands - the project to fly tanks onto the battlefield to support airborne forces, and the history...

Somalia

US Intervention, 1992–1994

by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013

The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the superpowers. With collapse of the Soviet Union,...

Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 2

The British Army in Northern Ireland 1978-79

by Ken Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

Volume 2 does what it says on the can - it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who were living in the troubled province at the time....

Fangs of the Lone Wolf

Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994-2009

by Dodge Billingsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013

Books on guerrilla war are seldom written from the tactical perspective and even less seldom from the guerrilla’s perspective. Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009 is an exception. These are the stories of low-level guerrilla combat as told by the survivors....
by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014

It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment...

Mrs Adolf Hitler

The Eva Braun Photograph Albums 1912-45

by Blaine Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013

The year 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun's birth. This is the strange-but-true saga of her life, richly illustrated from her own personal photograph albums, as well as from other captured German archives. She married German dictator Adolf Hitler but 36 hours before their joint suicides in Berlin...

Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa

Lisbon's Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961-74

by Al J. Venter
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013 Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the...

Battle For Angola

The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

by Al J. Venter
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony....

Congo Unravelled

Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt 196068

by Hudson, Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012

Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan-Africanism, Belgium's continued economic interests in the country's mineral wealth, and the strategic perceptions of other southern African states...

Radetzky's Marches

The Campaigns of 1848 and 1849 in Upper Italy

by Michael Embree
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013

In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe. In the Austrian-occupied north of Italy, newly nurtured nationalism, further fueled by economic issues, prompted open revolt in Lombardy and Venetia. The Austrian army in Italy, commanded by 82-year-old Field...

Four Flags, The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier

Part 1: US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77

by Dave Barr
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015

Dave Barr had had a penchant for trouble since day one, born in the back of a car, shooting by the time he was five, riding a motorbike at seven, Dave regularly got into fights at school. The only reading Dave would do growing up involved motorbikes, shooting, westerns and the military. After reading...

Barbarossa Derailed. Volume 3

The Documentary Companion. Tables, Orders and Reports prepared by participating Red Army forces

by David M. Glantz
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Führer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campaign, as well as vital orders issued by German Army...

Bushmen Soldiers

The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90

by Ian Uys
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014

The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers...
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