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.

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

A comprehensive and profusely illustrated guide to the French Armies that fought in the Wars of Religion (1562 - 1598), in English for the first time.

The classic soldier's chronicle, told in unvarnished candour, about the experience of a volunteer of the German Army and the German Waffen-SS.

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.

In this volume the Italian armies are introduced from the 'major powers' to the small states based on archive resources and unpublished iconography.

This is an unabridged translation of Theodor Fontane's Der deutsche Krieg von 1866, one of the most complete and celebrated histories of the Austro-Prussian War.

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.

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 detailed non-rules specific guide to wargaming the Great Northern War, written by a wargamer for wargamers.

A new and updated vision of the War of Spanish Succession largely won by the Sun King's armies.

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.