Helion imprint: 171 books
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...
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...
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...
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...
Striking Back: Britain's Airborne and Commando Raids 1940-42
Britain's Airborne and Commando Raids 1940-42
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
As the events of the Second World War fade into the distance it is important that the activities of a small band of brothers are not overlooked. In the dark days following Dunkirk in 1940 these men volunteered for what was euphemistically termed 'Special Service'. Often given very little idea of what...
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...