Helion And Company: 154 books
On the Devil's Tail
In Combat with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in...
by Alexander Hold
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866, which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia and the southern Tyrol...
The Easter Offensive, Vietnam 1972. Volume 1
Invasion across the DMZ
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers. Caught in a series of outposts of what was the former ‘McNamara Line’, the shocked defenders...
by Kerrin Cocks
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga,...
Man of Steel and Honour: General Stanislaw Maczek
Soldier of Poland, Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in North-West Europe 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This is a biography of one of the most undervalued commanders of the Second World War, General Stanislaw Maczek, a soldier overlooked by most military historians in the West both because he was Polish and above politics. Unlike most Polish commanders he rocked no boats and after his service was complete...
The Flechas
Insurgent Hunting in Eastern Angola, 1965–1974
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces in Africa. Following the...
Barbarossa Derailed
The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August-10 September 1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal...
SAAF's Border War
The South African Air Force in Combat 1966-89
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
South African Mirages and Cuban MiG-21s dogfighting over Cuito Cuanavale, the largest tank battle on African soil since El Alamein; Puma troopships shot out of the skies by Strela missiles and RPG-7 rockets; Alouette III gunships hovering menacingly above Koevoet tracker-combat teams as they close...
Mau Mau
The Kenyan Emergency 1952-60
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible...
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...
Syrian Conflagration
The Syrian Civil War, 2011-2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
The Syrian Civil War, (the colloquial name of the ongoing conflict in Syria), has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the...
Royal Corps of Signals, Supplementary Volume
Unit Histories of the Corps (1920 - 2001) and its Antecedents: Supplementary Volume
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
With the interest shown in "The Royal Corps of Signals: Unit History (1920-2001) and their Antecedents", it was decided to extend the work to include some of the principal Commonwealth Signal Corps, and to provide supplemental data regarding British Signals that has come to light since the...
Iron Fist From The Sea
South Africa's Seaborne Raiders 1978-1988
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This seminal work documents the clandestine sea borne operations undertaken by South Africa’s 4 Reconnaissance Commando Regiment. It breathtakingly reveals the versatility and effectiveness of this elite unit which worked with a range of other South African and Rhodesian forces, including the Rhodesian...