Helion And Company: 154 books
Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars. Volume 2
Eritrean War of Independence, 1988-1991 & Badme War, 1998-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days. Nowadays involved in the war in neighboring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen of other armed conflicts over the last 60 years.
Crucial between these was...
The Paras
Portugal’s First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Portuguese paratroopers or “paras” began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose forces that operated in small units with the attendant...
Flight Plan Africa
Portuguese Airpower in Counterinsurgency, 1961-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Following the 1952 reorganization of the Portuguese Air Force from the army and naval air arms, Portugal now had an entity dedicated solely to aviation that would bring it into line with its new NATO commitment. As it proceeded to develop a competence in modern multiengine and jet fighter aircraft...
Red Devils over the Yalu
A Chronicle of Soviet Aerial Operations in the Korean War 1950-53
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft...
Danish Campaign of 1864
Recollections of an Austrian General Staff Officer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The war of 1864 between Austria and Prussia on the one side and Denmark on the other was short but important for European history. The two Germanic great powers combined to force a much weaker but intransigent Denmark to cede its two provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, which freed German territory...
For Rex and for Belgium
Léon Degrelle and Walloon Political and Military Collaboration 1940-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
Nearly 60 years after the end of the Second World War, the name "Degrelle" remains controversial in Belgium and abroad. Was he a traitor to his nation, or a hero for anti-Communism? Until recently, the only information available on the man and his political movement came from Degrelle's...
Caen Controversy
The Battle for Sword Beach 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
On 6 June 1944 British, American, Canadian and French troops landed in Normandy by air and sea. This was one of the key moments of the Second World War, a long-anticipated invasion which would, ultimately, lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany. By the day’s end a lodgment had been effected and Operation...
by Nick Svendsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
1848 was a turbulent but momentous time in Europe. Within this context, the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were caught between the rising nationalism and desire for unification of the Prussian/German nation states and the traditional alliances with the Danish Kingdom. The Schleswig Holsteiners...
The Lilies & The Thistle
French Troops in the Jacobite '45
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 could not have taken place without French support. French ships carried Charles Edward Stuart to Scotland, French gold financed his campaign, and French weapons equipped many of his troops. Yet the actual French military contribution to the campaign was small, and its role...
Israeli Air Force Operations in the 1956 Suez War
29 October-8 November 1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
By participating in 1956 Suez Crisis Israel exploited an opportunity to join forces with France and the United Kingdom in an attack against Egypt in order to accomplish diplomatic, military and political objectives: to open the Red Sea international shipping lane to ships sailing from and to Eilat;...
Russian World War II Dictionary
A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions and Soldiers' Slang
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occupy a prominent place among most important...
The Battle of Kursk
The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July - August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical events. While the Germans defeats at Moscow and Stalingrad showed that Hitler could not win the war in the East, the...
An Active Service
The Story of a Soldier’s Life in the Grenadier Guards and SAS 1935-58
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
An Active Service' traces a young Sid Dowland from civilian life into the tough environment of the Guards Depot in the 1930's and then on to a Guards service Battalion in London and prewar Egypt. The outbreak of war found Sid taking part in the retreat to Dunkirk and then service in North Africa before...
Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945
Volume 1: Tactical Organization of Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This first volume covers the tactical organization of Army and Navy ground forces during the...