Helion And Company: 154 books
Somalia
US Intervention, 1992–1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the superpowers. With collapse of the Soviet Union,...
Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 2
The British Army in Northern Ireland 1978-79
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Volume 2 does what it says on the can - it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who were living in the troubled province at the time....
Fangs of the Lone Wolf
Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994-2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Books on guerrilla war are seldom written from the tactical perspective and even less seldom from the guerrilla’s perspective. Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009 is an exception. These are the stories of low-level guerrilla combat as told by the survivors....
by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment...
Mrs Adolf Hitler
The Eva Braun Photograph Albums 1912-45
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The year 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun's birth. This is the strange-but-true saga of her life, richly illustrated from her own personal photograph albums, as well as from other captured German archives. She married German dictator Adolf Hitler but 36 hours before their joint suicides in Berlin...
Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa
Lisbon's Three Wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea 1961-74
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Nominated for the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Book Award 2013
Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the...
Battle For Angola
The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Following the publication of Al Venter’s successful Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa - shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium’s 'Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013' - his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled history of this former Portuguese African colony....
Congo Unravelled
Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt 196068
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan-Africanism, Belgium's continued economic interests in the country's mineral wealth, and the strategic perceptions of other southern African states...
Radetzky's Marches
The Campaigns of 1848 and 1849 in Upper Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe. In the Austrian-occupied north of Italy, newly nurtured nationalism, further fueled by economic issues, prompted open revolt in Lombardy and Venetia. The Austrian army in Italy, commanded by 82-year-old Field...
Four Flags, The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier
Part 1: US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Dave Barr had had a penchant for trouble since day one, born in the back of a car, shooting by the time he was five, riding a motorbike at seven, Dave regularly got into fights at school. The only reading Dave would do growing up involved motorbikes, shooting, westerns and the military. After reading...
Barbarossa Derailed. Volume 3
The Documentary Companion. Tables, Orders and Reports prepared by participating Red Army forces
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Führer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campaign, as well as vital orders issued by German Army...
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...
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...