Helion imprint: 171 books
The German Fallschirmtruppe 1936-41 (Revised edition)
Its Genesis and Employment in the First Campaigns of the Wehrmacht
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Fallschirmtruppe of the Wehrmacht won recognition for their valor and endurance not only from their fellow German soldiers, but from their former enemies as well. On the basis of careful and comprehensive research, including utilizing extensive unpublished documentary and personal materials, the...
Thunder at Prokhorovka
A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfill that objective. If successful, a number of Soviet armies would be destroyed and the front line shortened, allowing for a better disposition of troops...
Franco-Prussian War, Volume 2: Sedan. Helmuth von Moltke and the Defeat of the Government of National Defence
After Sedan. Helmuth Von Moltke And The Defeat Of The Government Of National Defence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In the second part of this comprehensive all-new two-volume military history of the Franco-Prussian War, the author continues his narrative from the fall of the Second Empire until the ending of the war, and the founding of a unified Germany. The war against the Government of National Defense presented...
Days of Battle
Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Days of Battle describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. Dr Norbert Számvéber the presents detailed accounts of four important clashes of German-Hungarian and Soviet armor north of the river Danube, in the southern territory of the historical Upper...
Airborne Armour
Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 1938-50
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2004
Despite all the works on airborne forces published since 1945, the full story of Britain's 'airborne armour' has remained untold. This book is intended to correct that omission. The story has two main strands - the project to fly tanks onto the battlefield to support airborne forces, and the history...
US Army Infantry Divisions 1943-45 Volume 1
Volume 1 - Organisation, Doctrine, Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
In the first of a two-volume study, the author presents an extremely detailed record of the Organisation, doctrine and equipment of US Army infantry divisions during the latter part of World War II. The second volume will provide capsule histories for all US Army infantry divisions during this period.
After...
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....
Mau Mau
The Kenyan Emergency 1952-60
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible...