Helion And Company: 154 books
Ice Steel and Fire
British Explorers in Peace and War 1921-45
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation.
The members of the...
A Walk Against The Stream
A Rhodesian National Service Officer's Story of the Bush War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
A Walk Against The Stream takes a look at the experiences of a young national service officer in the Rhodesian army. This is a true story, encompassing all eighteen months the author spent at Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, facing enemy territory just across the Zambezi river in Zambia.
Initially...
Beyond No Mean Soldier
The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Peter McAleese needs little introduction... His classic book "No Mean Soldier" was an immediate bestseller and set the bar for the modern military memoir. Few have since met its match. This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain's...
Biafra
The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman Goldie. It was handed over to indigenous rule...
US Army Infantry Divisions 1943-45 Volume 1
Volume 1 - Organisation, Doctrine, Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II. The second volume will provide capsule histories for all US Army infantry divisions during this period.
After...
Remembering the Dragon Lady: The U-2 Spy Plane: Memoirs of the Men Who Made the Legend
Memoirs of the Men who Experienced the Legend of the U-2 Spy Plane
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft...
Battle of Spicheren
August 1870
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This account, penned by a noted British military historian of the late nineteenth century, remains one of the best narratives of a nineteenth century battle yet published. Henderson based this detailed and considered account of one of the opening battles of the Franco-Prussian War upon not only General...
by Frank Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Selected for the task of researching a story with political overtones, fasttrack, up-and-coming Inspector Tim Medway has fears for his future promotion, added to when, as a result, he is seconded to a County Force to help investigate a murder that may be linked. His new assignment, along with the...
Battle for Cassinga
South Africa's Controversial Cross-Border Raid, Angola 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Battle for Cassinga is written as a firsthand account by an ordinary South African paratrooper who was at the 1978 assault on the Angolan headquarters of PLAN, the armed wing of SWAPO. The book relates why the South African government took the political risk in attacking the fortress in an external...
Field Marshal Von Manstein
The Janushead: A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Most military historians are in agreement that Feldmarschall Erich von Manstein was the most outstanding German high commander of the Second World War. Many view him as the foremost exponent of large-scale mobile operations in any of the Second World War armies.
Surprisingly, no biography of...
Thunder at Prokhorovka
A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfill that objective. If successful, a number of Soviet armies would be destroyed and the front line shortened, allowing for a better disposition of troops...
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 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...
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,...