Helion And Company imprint: 162 books
by Fred McGlade
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
At the beginning of the Second World War the Nazi hierarchy at an early stage, had fully recognized the importance of controlling the depiction of military conflict in order to ensure the continued morale of their combat troops by providing a bridge between the soldiers and their families. Promoting...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a revealing and often frank record of the internal conflicts at the Public Relations Department of the War Office and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.
Ronald Tritton was recruited in 1940 for the position of War Office Publicity...
Great Lakes Holocaust
First Congo War, 1996–1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Great Lakes Holocaust' is the first in two volumes covering military operations in Zaire - as the Congo was named from 1971 until 1997 - and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the turn of the 21st century. This volume explores the events of the 1980s and 1990s in Rwanda and Uganda, which eventually...
A Military Government in Exile
The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, A Study of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Before 1939 there had been little contact between Poland...
The Last War of the Superfortresses
MiG-15 vs B-29 over Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This work is an attempt by the authors to give as full and detailed a history as possible of the confrontation between Soviet fighters and the principal strike force of the United States Far East Air Force – the B-29 ‘Superfortress’ bombers during the course of the Korean War between 1950-1953....
Brown Waters of Africa
Portuguese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO. This membership resulted in a modernizing of its navy and its integration into the Atlantic Alliance. By 1960, when other colonial powers were abandoning their empires, Portugal made...
Magyar Warriors. Volume 1
The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvédség) were built up in the 1930s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-WWI Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking for a strong ally, who would help it to recover at least some...
Bismarck's First War
The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
This book chronicles the final conflict over the now almost forgotten "Schleswig-Holstein Question", once a pivotal issue for the great powers of Europe. The campaign of Schleswig and Jutland was also the first of Otto von Bismarck's Wars of German Unification, which together created a united...
Monty's Functional Doctrine
Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944–45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Using a combination of new perspectives and new evidence, this book presents a reinterpretation of how 21st Army Group produced a successful combined arms doctrine by late 1944 and implemented this in early 1945. Historians, professional military personnel and those interested in military history...
Wings over Ogaden
The Ethiopian–Somali War, 1978–1979
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
With Ethiopia in disarray following a period of severe internal unrest and the spread of insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray, Ethiopia and its armed forces should have offered little opposition to well-equipped Somali armed forces which were unleashed to capture Ogaden, in July 1977. However, excellently...
War of Intervention in Angola. Volume 1
Angolan and Cuban Forces at War, 1975-1976
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
As of 1975, the decades long insurgency in Angola appeared to be short of its conclusion. However, with no less than three major insurgent movements fighting for supremacy, the war went on and then South Africa, USA, the Soviet Union, Zaire and Cuba became involved.
Affairs like the CIA’s...
Hot Skies Over Yemen. Volume 2
Aerial Warfare Over Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1994-2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Following the Civil War of 1994, Yemen experienced few years of relative peace. This was rudely interrupted in 2004, when the government opened the first of six campaigns against the movement colloquially known as ‘Houthis’. The Yemeni Air Force – partially re-equipped over the previous years...
Hot Skies Over Yemen. Volume 1
Aerial Warfare Over the Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1962-1994
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen. The number of long-lasting insurgencies, mutinies, rebellions, or terrorism-related activities that took place during this period is going into dozens. Despite duration of all these conflicts...
Libyan Air Wars
Part 1: 1973-1985
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Between 1973 and 1989, various Western powers and Libya were entangled in a seemingly never-ending exchange of blows. Supposedly launched in retaliation for one action or the other, this confrontation resulted in a number of high-profile, even though low-scale, clashes between the Libyan Arab Air...