Helion Company imprint: 170 books
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...
Prelude to Berlin
The Red Army's Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Prelude to Berlin: The Red Army’s Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945, offers a panoramic view of the Soviet strategic offensives north of the Carpathians in the winter of 1945. During the course of this offensive the Red Army broke through the German defenses in Poland and...
by Frank Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Plans to build a new bird sanctuary in a small English village are interrupted by murder most fowl in this delightful British whodunit.
When Alan Tewkes decides to convert the wetlands he inherited from his father into a protected reserve for endangered migrant birds, his altruistic gesture...
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...
by Frank Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In Case is a murder story set in north Wales. The narrator is an English lawyer who is invited by the Professor, an old friend, to help launch the law department at a new university being established near Llandudno. He is to be a part-time lecturer for the opening term before returning to his practice...
The Hall of Mirrors
War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
The 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history. It is a clearly defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period. So, what can we learn from war, and warfare, in the 20th century?
War is hugely important....
Battlefield Rations
The Food Given to the British Soldier For Marching and Fighting 1900-2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
An Army marches on its stomach, observed Napoleon, a hundred and fifty years later General Rommel remarked that the British should always be attacked before soldiers had had an early morning cup of tea. This book, written to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund and with a Foreword by General Lord...