Books published by Helion & Company

The first English account of Ethiopia's epic struggle for survival against the Arab forces of the Sultan of Adal, a conflict that seen throughout the Horn of Africa today.

Ground-breaking research about Czechoslovak arms exports to the Middle East, based on official documentation.

The first concise study of the armed forces of five English-speaking Caribbean nations.

This book explores CIA U-2 operations across Eastern Europe, the USSR and Middle East from 1956-60, including previously undisclosed missions and more.

This book, based on extensive new research, examines the military forces of the British Army which effectively faced the threat of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars on Ireland.

The first authoritative and richly illustrated account about air warfare in the Arab World of the period 1911-1955. Volume 4 cover the period of 1936-1941.

The little-known story of the Angolan and Cuban air forces at war in Angola during the later 1980s, told from the Cuban and Angolan perspective.

James McGrigor championed the common soldier and transformed medical care in the British Army through personal commitment and by revolutionising the training of medical officers.

The first book since 1915 about the part the Indians played in the Gallipoli campaign, telling their story in new and unexpected ways.

In July 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie and a tiny group of companions arrived in Scotland. The Highland Army continued to out-fight the redcoats in every encounter, except its very last. These were not the achievements of a backward-looking cause, and this ground-breaking study is the first to explain exactly why.

Looks at the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army.

The second part of an investigation into the clothing orders of the late-Georgian British Army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army.

A complete and thoroughly researched book about 'The Secret Expedition'; the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland 1799 and the Franco-Batavian defence. Including numerous first-hand accounts.

Part 1 of two-volume work covering the Allied intervention in Norway 1940.

Part 2 of two-volume work covering the Allied intervention in Norway 1940.

An examination of the clandestine role of the CIA and British mercenaries in Angola's civil war of the 1970s.

An authoritative, richly illustrated summary on the major confrontation of four superpowers over the city of Berlin, including the Berlin Airlift, in 1945-1949.

A survey of the main theatres of the Second Anglo Maratha War, including the campaigns against Holkar and the Jats after the capture of Delhi.

A detailed and richly illustrated, blow-by-blow account of the first major air-mobile operations up to that point, and the first major showdown between the US Army, the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.

In the century-long history of the conquest of the sky there have been a number of outstanding personalities. Among them is the name of designer Nikolay Polikarpov (1892-1944), which is inseparably associated with the best achievements of the Russian and Soviet aviation.