Helion imprint: 171 books

Enduring the Whirlwind

The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943

by Gregory Liedtke
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth. One of the most persistent of these is the notion - largely created by many former members of its own...

A Flawed Genius

Field Marshal Walter Model, A Critical Biography

by Marcel Stein
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010

Walter Model ranks among the foremost commanders of the German Wehrmacht during World War Two. This is recognized by both German and foreign military historians. But Model was also one of the most brutal German Generals. Whenever he assumed a new command, he showered his staff officers with insults...

Field Marshal Von Manstein

The Janushead: A Portrait

by Marcel Stein
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...

Flakhelfer to Grenadier

Memoir of a Boy Soldier, 1943-1945

by Karl Heinz Schlesier
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

On January 7 1943, the German Government, in order to free adult soldiers for frontline duty, ordered that all male students of secondary schools born in 1926 and 1927 be drafted into anti-air craft service in the homeland. Students were to arrive in batteries on February 18 1943. After serving...

King Arthur's Wars

The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England

by Jim Storr
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

The story of an era shrouded in mystery, and the gradual changing of a nation’s cultural identity. We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history. There...

With Tegetthoff at Lissa

The Memoirs of an Austrian Naval Officer 1861-66

by Maximilian Rottauscher
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010

The imperial Austrian navy which fought and won the signal victory of Lissa on 20 July 1866, during the so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866, has in recent years been subjected to more detailed scrutiny than has hitherto been its lot, and it is with an eye to following this trend that we present the...

A New Battlefield

The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea 1950-51

by David Truesdale, David Orr
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011

Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue. A limited yet competent history had been produced in 1953 by the...

Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy

The Combat History of SS Panzer Regiment 12 and SS Panzerjäger Abteilung 12, Normandy 1944, based on their original war diaries

by Norbert Számvéber
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012

Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy presents the combat history of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12 in the Battle for France from June to the end of August 1944 based on transcriptions of their original unit war diaries from the Military History Archives in Prague. Both armored...

Blood Clot

In Combat with the Patrols Platoon, 3 Para, Afghanistan 2006

by Jake Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009

"As you know 'blood clot' means blood cells coming together to form a strong clot that forms and sticks together to keep the wound sealed enabling it to repair. The Parachute Regiment's 'blood clot' acts the same, whether downtown scrapping or in some far away country fighting alongside each...

Chicken Street

Afghanistan before the Taliban: Clearing the Deadly Remnants of War

by John Lane
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

This captivating work tells of Afghanistan before the Taliban - a land of majestic mountains and arid plains, terrain contaminated by the deadly remnants of war; landmines and unexploded ordnance, silent killers ready to kill and maim the innocent and unsuspecting. A historic and timeless land of...

Black Tuesday Over Namsi

B-29s vs MIGs—The Forgotten Air Battle of the Korean War, 23 October 1951

by Lt. Col. Earl. J. McGill
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

A gripping true account of warfare in the skies over Korea, when American bombers and North Korean jet fighters would change the course of air combat. On October 23, 1951, an hour and a half before sunrise, nine B-29s of the 307th Bombardment Wing took off from Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa,...

Deter Suppress Extract!

Royal Military Police Close Protection, The Authorised History

by Richard Keightley
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015

...Close protection is defined as the provision of armed or unarmed specialists to protect a nominated principal from harm' - Excerpt from a Standing Committee on Army Organisation by the Director of Military Operations, dated 30 November 1979. This incredible work has been authored by the...

SAAF's Border War

The South African Air Force in Combat 1966-89

by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

South African Mirages and Cuban MiG-21s dogfighting over Cuito Cuanavale, the largest tank battle on African soil since El Alamein; Puma troopships shot out of the skies by Strela missiles and RPG-7 rockets; Alouette III gunships hovering menacingly above Koevoet tracker-combat teams as they close...

Stout Hearts

The British and Canadians in Normandy 1944

by Ben Kite
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016

Stout Hearts is a book which offers an entirely new perspective on the British Army in Normandy. This fresh study explores the anatomy of war through the Army's operations in the summer of 1944, informing and entertaining the general non-fiction reader as well as students of military history....
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