Helion imprint: 171 books
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...
Another Bloody Chapter In An Endless Civil War. Volume 1
Northern Ireland and the Troubles, 1984-87
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The period under review covers the years of 1984-87 - nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financial and logistical strength, but also how the Security...
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...
With Trumpet, Drum and Fife
A short treatise covering the rise and fall of military musical instruments on the battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
With Trumpet, Drum and Fife' is described as a 'short treatise covering the rise and fall of military musical instruments on the battlefield'. Despite there being a plethora of books about military music, 'With Trumpet, Drum and Fife' stands out from the crowd in that it explores new areas of the...
Landrecies to Cambrai
Case Studies of German Offensive and Defensive Operations on the Western Front 1914-17
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Interest in the First World War, or Great War, continues unabated. New angles are sought, fresh interpretations penned. Equally, much previously published material resides long forgotten in the pages of now-rarely-consulted journals and periodicals. Landrecies to Cambrai reprints an extensive series...
An Accrington Pal
The Diaries Of Private Jack Smallshaw, September 1914-March 1919
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. In France and Belgium, the British Expeditionary Force were struggling to hold back the German hoards as their casualties...
Learning from Foreign Wars
Russian Military Thinking 1859-73
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
Learning from Foreign Wars examines how the Russian army interpreted, and what lessons it learned from the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change - political, social, economic and technological. By raising the question of learning from...
by Stuart Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Stuart Sutherland’s work is the first modern bibliography in English of the Seven Weeks’ War of 1866. It includes books in English French German and Italian and is subdivided into sections on general histories particular campaigns and battles (Hanoverian Bohemian-Moravian Italian southern German...
Understanding the Somme 1916
An Illuminating Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
This is a guidebook with a difference. It is not a list of memorials and cemeteries. Its aim is to provide the reader with an understanding of the Battle of the Somme. There were some partial successes; there were many disastrous failures. In 17 concise chapters dealing with different areas of 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...
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
Understanding Counter-insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Since 20 December 2001 - the date which marked the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Government - hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers from around 50 different states have physically been and served in Afghanistan. Roughly 20 rotation periods...
by Stuart Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866 between Prussia and Italy and Austria was notable not only for its effect on future German history but also because it was the last time the armies of the smaller German states fought as independent contingents. Forces from 30 smaller states were involved and...