Helion Company imprint: 170 books
Bushmen Soldiers
The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90
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...
Under Himmler's Command
The Personal Recollections of Oberst Hans-Georg Eismann, Operations Officer, Army Group Vistula, Eastern Front 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Under Himmler's Command addresses two areas of World War II hitherto neglected - Heinrich Himmler as a military commander, and the German staff officer corps during the last months of the war on the Eastern Front.
The author, Hans-Georg Eismann, was the Operations Officer for Army Group Vistula,...
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...
Abolishing the Taboo
Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
In 'Abolishing the Taboo', Brian Madison Jones takes a new look at the integral role played by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the creation of a new nuclear creed for the United States during the Cold War. The author centers the narrative on Eisenhower, the man, the general, and the president, with specific...
Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes
Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Of Islands, Ports, and Sea Lanes,/i> explains the operational and strategic importance of the ports and sea lanes of Africa and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. In addition, it offers a novel account of the war in the Indian Ocean, a busy and vital theater of military operations throughout...
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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...
by P.L.G. Doorman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Most studies of the 1940 Western Campaign have tended to focus on a narrow range of topics, principally those relating the German forces or the epic of Dunkirk. The publication of this title is aimed at redressing the balance by providing a detailed account of the operations of the Dutch army during...
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...
Forging a Special Operations Force
The US Army Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Forging a Special Operations Force: The U.S. Army Rangers details the origins and development, combat philosophy, and key engagements of America's elite fighting force. Structured topically, the book gives a chronological review of the history of the Ranger from the 17th century to the present day,...
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...