Helion and Company

Helion Wargames • $29.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 10 color images, photos TBC, 30 b/w tables March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-91-507027-2

Before the birth of the Roman Empire, the history of the Classical world was dominated by the history of Greece, its cities, and kingdoms. The best known of these stories is the achievement of Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon, who would become known to the world as Alexander the Great. This book provides an expansion to the Three Ages of Rome wargames’ rules. The four historical scenarios span the Age of Alexander and link directly into the first period of the ‘Three Ages’ rules. The new army lists introduce armies from across the period of the expansion set. They complement the armies in the original set of rules enabling players to recreate more battles from the ancient period. As in the ‘Three Ages’, in battle nothing is certain but generals that practice their skills are more likely to be victorious.

Helion Wargames • $39.95 • Paperback 104 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 10 color images, photos TBC,50 b/w tables March 2022 • HIS027220 978-1-91-507026-5

Designed for ease of play, Three Ages of Rome offers a player experience based on the commander’s problems. The rules are designed to create a feel for the uncertainty of ancient battles. Most games should take 2-3 hours to play. The Age of Expansion (300BCE – 30BCE) starts with Rome’s wars against Carthage. Followed by Rome against Macedon, Rome against the Gallic Celts, and several civil wars between the Romans themselves. In the Age of Empire (30BCE-200CE) the Romans moved north and west conquering territories in Germania and Britain. Spreading east, they campaigned against the Dacians and the Parthians. The Age of Decline (200CE-450CE) sees Rome struggling against pressures from outside the Empire. The wars with the Sassanids continued with successes and included defeats for both sides.

A Wargamer’s Companion to Argyll’s & Monmouth’s Rebellion of 1685 Stephen M. Carter

Helion Wargames • $49.95 Paperback • 168 pages • 7x9.75 20 full color maps, 24 other maps, 12 b/w plates, 34 ills • June 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507025-8

One King! is the perfect companion to the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 covering every encounter and unit in England, and for the first time in Scotland. Its sits alongside the book Fighting for Liberty as the ideal companion and provides the information needed to bring the Monmouth Rebellion to life on the tabletop. One King! includes fast play campaign rules that uses the strategies, maps, deployments, and military objectives allowing the enthusiast or wargamer to follow in the footsteps of the commanders - even change the course of history over a coffee. The battlefield plans give all the information needed to fight out all the encounters as accurately as possible. While the orders of battle and unit sheets will guide the tabletop wargamer in the recreation of their miniature armies or navies! One King! has everything for the wargamer or military enthusiast, even the chance to change the course of history and crown the one true King James II & VII.

Volume 2: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro, the Unholy Trinity, 1962 Linda Rios Bromley

Latin America@War • $29.95 Paperback • 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 60 photos • June 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507075-3 Linda Rios Bromley lives in USA

The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 executed by Cuban patriots to overthrow Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, ended in a catastrophic failure. Leaders in Washington and Cuban exiles in Florida expected the result to install a democratic government in place, but Castro remained in charge. Finger pointing among the Cuba Task Force in Washington, DC resulted in many fired from their government jobs. The pot continued to simmer and discovery of Soviet missiles by U-2 spy planes confirmed Washington’s worst fear, another showdown with the Soviet Union. At the time, no telephones between Washington and Moscow existed, no real-time communications or computers to accurately identify the location of undersea vessels. John F. Kennedy, the 43-year-old President of the US, and his administration had no experience dealing with or negotiating through a crisis involving nuclear weapons. However, they understood what the results could be for the US and even the world.

Development and Operational History of Soviet Nuclear-Powered Cruise-Missile Submarines, 1960-1994 Alejandro A. Vilches Alarcón

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 70 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027150 • 978-1-91-507068-5

Available for first time, a detailed study of submarines, missiles and operations of all submarines developed and built in the USSR with the main objective of sinking the US Navy Carrier Battlegroups. New technologies and the extreme sacrifice from the crews, sometimes resulting in nuclear accidents and loss of human life, helped create this class of submarine unique to the USSR. This book explores the mentality of the Russian Submarine Designers and how the Russian Navy developed its strategy based in these underwater behemoths.

Volume 1 - Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic Edward Crowther

Europe@War • $29.95 Paperback • 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 c 40 images & 4 maps April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507066-1

The title focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. Ukraine War: Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic aims to provide an overview of their formation in 2014, present status, and combat equipment, while also exploring issues around identity and symbology. One area of focus of the title explores the unusual and little-known ‘home grown’ military technological developments made by the Donetsk People’s Republic, including multiple launch rocket systems, armored vehicles, sniper rifles, small arms and remote weapons stations. This book also presents a wealth of unique visual material including unit patches, photographs, diagrams and maps, and will be of interest to anyone studying the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Grenada 1983 Sanjay BadriMaharaj

Latin America@War • $29.95 • Paperback 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-91-507073-9

In 1983, the United States launched a military operation to remove the military junta that had taken over the Caribbean island of Grenada. This operation, code-named Urgent Fury, was held out by the Reagan Administration as a major military success and a victory against communism. In some ways it was. In others it was a foregone conclusion, a victory against a discredited regime with little support internally or externally. Urgent Fury examines the genesis of the Grenadian Revolution of 1979 and the eventual fall of the Gairy Regime and establishing the English-speaking Caribbean’s only Soviet-bloc client state, and the rise and fall from grace of the populist Maurice Bishop.

Dirty Little Wars 1956-1980 Antonio Luis Sapienza

Latin America@War • $29.95 • Paperback 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 130 photos, 12 artworks, 4 maps • February 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507074-6

In 1959, some members of the Liberal Party and the “Febreristas” in exile in Argentina formed a guerrilla group called “14 de Mayo” (M-14) and planned a series of attacks against government installations. Some of them were veterans of the Chaco War with military training but the rest were not trained at all. They got some weapons through donations of exiled supporters and ammunition, explosives and radio equipment from the Argentinean Army. The M-14 did not have the support of the authorities and many of them were exterminated. 120 were captured and sent to prison and 42 escaped to Brazil in 1961. Amendolara

Dassault Super Etendard Fighter-Bombers in the Falklands/ Malvinas War, 1982 Mariano Sciaroni Alejandro

Latin America@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 80-90 photos, 8-10 maps, c 6 tables, 8-10 profiles/artwork March 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507072-2

“Handbrake!”- the codeword that was shouted aboard Royal Navy ships upon the detection of an emission from the Thomson-CSF/EMD Agave radar of the Argentine Super Étendard, which carried the dreaded AM-39 Exocet missiles. This is the story of a military unit that revolutionized modern naval warfare, addressing both the military equipment involved and the people who were there. Known as the Lora (after the squadron badge showing a female parrot armed with a club), the squadron terrorized British sailors in the South Atlantic and is still in service with the Naval Aviation of the Argentine Navy.

Volume 2 - CIA U-2 Asia and Worldwide Operations 1957-1974 Kevin Wright

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 40 color photos, c 50 b/w photos, 1 map, 6 tables • January 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-91-507069-2

Devised by Kelly Johnson and operated by the CIA from 1956-74, the U-2 is the world’s most famous ‘spyplane.’ It flew at unprecedented altitudes and carried the most sophisticated sensors available, all in the greatest secrecy. The second volume of We Were Never There concentrates on the period of operational missions mainly across Asia from 1957-74. The book utilizes a large number of declassified documents to explore some of the remaining secrets of these missions. It ends with the phasing out of Agency U-2 operations, the closure of projects TACKLE and JACKSON and an evaluation of the U-2’s contribution to aerial intelligence collection.

Volume 1 - Build-Up and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1945-1960 Krzysztof Dabrowski

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 72 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507071-5

When the Second World War ended the Soviets had numerous conventional anti-aircraft guns and piston engine fighters in service but with the rapid advances of aviation technology much of this was facing obsolescence. Worse, the war-ravaged country was facing new challenges as the end of the war did not bring a time of universal peace but instead a new rivalry with the West in a Cold War, which could at any time turn hot both figuratively and literally. Western competitors for world domination, primarily the United States, could boast a huge bomber fleet capable of delivering devastating nuclear strikes. Developing and fielding technologically and qualitatively new ground-based defenses and fighter aircraft became a most urgent imperative and in a relatively short time remarkable progress was achieved in these fields. Guided surface to air missiles were developed and fielded, and jet powered fighters entered service, their performance ever improving from high-subsonic to supersonic speeds and even higher. Similar advances were made in the fields of air-to air armaments and detection and early warning technology.

The 1975 Soviet Navy Mutiny in the Baltic Michael Fredholm von Essen

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 20 photos, 3 maps • March 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-91-507070-8

In 1975, Lieutenant Commander Valeriy Sablin led his crew in a mutiny on the Soviet warship Storozhevoy. Sablin’s avowed intention was to foment a new communist revolution by taking the warship to Leningrad, where he expected to receive the support of the navy and the masses. However, the Soviet leadership thought that Sablin intended to defect to Sweden, bringing with him a warship of modern design with all its armaments, electronics, communication devices, and code books. As a result, Soviet supreme leader Leonid Brezhnev ordered the destruction of the warship. After several dramatic, but ultimately failed, attacks on the Storozhevoy, Colonel General Sergey Gulyayev, commander of the Naval Aviation of the Baltic Fleet, personally ordered a missile launch against the Storozhevoy, employing the special protocol for the launch of nuclear missiles. The purpose of the launch was to destroy the warship. However, by then the crew had already detained Sablin and announced their intention to surrender.

The Spanish Air Force from 1939 to the Present Day Pere Redón-Trabal

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback 64 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 26 color photos, 34 b/w photos, 4 maps, 60 tables, c 30 colored badge illustrations • June 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-507067-8

This book includes, for the first time and in great detail, the current types of aircraft in service in the Ejército del Aire (EA), the Spanish air force, with a brief history of their incorporation into the various Wings, Squadrons and Groups. Several tables, updated in 2021, contain the name given by the manufacturer and the EA to each aircraft type, as well as registration numbers, unit indicative, serial numbers of the aircraft of North American origin, the constructor number, the date of entry into service and, if applicable, the date of technical withdrawal or accident. In this way the reader will be able to identify each aircraft, the unit to which it belongs and the base from which it operates. This book summarizes the history of the EA from its creation in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War, to the present day. It is divided into five periods: 1939-1952; 1953-1969; 1970-1999; 2000-2020; and the future from 2021.

Volume 1 - The Conquest of Manchuria 1931-1938 Adrien Fontanellaz

Asia@War, Vol. 22 • $29.95 Paperback • 80 pages • 6x9 100 b/w photos/illustrations, 21 color profiles/figures, 1 color map Currently Available • HIS027130 978-1-91-437780-8

Volume 1 of the Red Star Versus Rising Sun mini-series examines the origins of the rapidly modernizing Imperial Japanese Army and its expansion, largely unfettered by civilian political constraints, into mainland Asia from the late 19th century up until 1938. It examines the culture, structure and equipment of the IJA and its campaigns in warlord-era China, along with an overview of the purge-ravaged Red Army of the same period. This volume culminates in a detailed description of the major clash of the Soviet and Japanese armies at Lake Khasan in 1938. Volume 1 includes a range of specially commissioned color illustrations of the men, AFVs, artillery pieces, and aircraft that fought at Lake Khasan in 1938.

Volume 1 - The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean Michal A. Piegzik

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 80 b/w photos, colored profiles, maps, 7 tables • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507061-6

The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March–April 1942, the main goal of which was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the eastern flank of the Pacific War on the eve of the Battle of Midway. It describes the strategic planning of both sides in February–March 1942, including the Japanese navy projections on the last steps of the first stage of the Pacific War, and the Royal Navy’s hopes to halt the enemy advance without taking any significant risks. The Darkest Hour is the first systematic attempt to describe the less-well known part of the Pacific War by researching both British and Japanese archive documents and other secondary sources published in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and India.

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The Threat and Theatre of China’s AntiShip Ballistic Missiles Gerry Doyle

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback • 72 pages 8.25x11.75 • 42 photos, 16 graphics, maps & ills March 2022 • HIS027080 • 978-1-91-507064-7

The idea of an anti-ship ballistic missile has taken root in China’s military planning. The country is not only building more of its first version of such a weapon, the DF-21D, but has developed an anti-ship warhead for another such missile, the more-numerous DF-26, billed as having a 2,500-mile range — more than enough to hit Guam from several hundred miles inland in China. In theory, that puts any naval adversary at risk long before it is in Chinese waters, let alone within striking distance of China’s coastline. That makes the development, deployment and threat posed by the DF-21D and China’s other ASBMs crucial to study.

Present Capabilities and Future Prospects Sanjay Badri-Maharaj

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback • 80 pages 8.25x11.75 • March 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-507058-6

90 Years of the Indian Air Force examines the Indian Air Force as it exists today and its moves towards modernization. Each element of the IAF, along with the current inventory of aircraft as they relate to its combat squadrons, its transport fleet, its helicopter forces and its training and electronic warfare and surveillance assets are discussed. In addition, the IAF’s air defence network and its large SAM inventory are detailed along with the fledgling Defence Space Agency which operates with Air Force assistance. India’s existing space assets are discussed as they relate to airspace surveillance and management.

Volume 2 - Air War over Serbia, 1999 Bojan Dimitrejevic Lieutenant-General Jovica Dragani?

Europe@War • $29.95 • Paperback • 120 pages 8.25x11.75 • 140 color photos, 10 diagrams & tables, 8 or 16pp color profiles & artworks February 2022 • HIS027140 978-1-91-507065-4

In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization launched Operation Allied Force against Serbia, claiming that Serb forces in Kosovo were engaged in ethnic cleansing. Serbia, in turn, claimed to be fighting against an insurgency. The second volume of Operation Allied Force provides in depth analyses of the operation. The authors have analyzed the experiences of both sides, starting from the command chain of the aviation of both air forces and the operations of the Yugoslav/Serb air defenses.

Volume 1 - America’s Secret Air Wars in Asia, 1945-1950 Albert Grandolini Marc Koelich

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 150 photos, maps & profiles • June 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-91-507059-3

The famed American Volunteer Group (AVG) created in August 1941, under the command of Claire Lee Chennault set an example of heroism for the American public opinion at the onset of the Second World War. This band of volunteer aviators serving under the Chinese Government tried to stem the tide of the Japanese onslaught throughout Southeast Asia. Highly publicized in the US as the Flying Tigers, the AVG set up the origin and legacy of further United States clandestine air wars in Asia, and elsewhere in the world in the coming decades. From that point on, the name of Claire Lee Chennault was associated with paramilitary and secret air operations on behalf of the United States Government in Asia. However, if his involvement in China in late 1930s is well documented, his involvement in various clandestine air operations after the Second World War is far less well known.

Volume 2 - The CIA Paramilitary Campaign in Laos, 1969-1974 Ken Conboy

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 75 b/w photos, 35 color photos, 4 maps January 2022 • HIS027110 978-1-91-507060-9 Ken Conboy lives in Cincinnati, OH

During a closed-door meeting of Washington policy makers on 31 March 1971, a senior CIA officer informed National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger that the agency was controlling up to 8 divisions of indigenous troops in Laos. “When the CIA reaches the point of having the largest army in Southeast Asia,” retorted Kissinger, “we better review the program!” The Erawan War Volume 2 details how the CIA operation in Laos reached that point, becoming its largest paramilitary operation of the Cold War. With photos and maps, it covers the wide range of CIA-supported units in Laos, from guerrilla regiments that went toe-to-toe with the North Vietnamese army in pitched campaigns, to top-secret commandos that crossed borders to wage clandestine sabotage attacks.

Volume 1 - The Counterinsurgency Campaign in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 Darren Poole

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 120 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027070 • 978-1-91-507063-0

The early 1960s are considered to be a period of failure in the fight against the Viet Cong. However, new research reveals that the VC came very close to being defeated. They were - in their own words - being ‘cut up’. Hunting the Viet Cong: Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 presents a new perspective on the early stages of the Vietnam War. It shows how the counterinsurgency policy of the American-backed Diem government was effective in separating the Viet Cong from many of their supporters, forced many VC into hiding and created a platform for further government success. The book examines both the Counterinsurgency Plan and the Strategy Hamlet program (based upon British success in the Malayan Emergency) and explains how these began to strangle insurgent activity. In many parts of South Vietnam, the VC were reduced to scavenging and intimidating the local people in order to survive. Tragically, this was a period when victory against the VC was possible but political ineptness, arrogance and military delusion threw this chance away.

Volume 1 - Ground Forces Stijn Mitzer Joost Oliemans

Asia@War • $29.95 • Paperback 112 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 16 artworks, 1 map, c 7 b/w images, c 160 color images • April 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507062-3

To many, North Korea has become synonymous with the threat of nuclear war, having seen a succession of escalating strategic weapons tests. The international focus on this topic has resulted in an imbalance of information, where its equally significant and numerically vast conventional forces are typically ignored. More than just posing a threat in its immense proportions however, the KPA remains a force to be reckoned with due to a continuing drive for modernization. Any assessment of its abilities that omits such developments is invariably inaccurate, and with literature sparse and available sources often disseminating misinformation more than anything else, there is no definitive framework for placing new information about the KPA’s ground forces in its proper context. This book aims to provide precisely such a framework by setting out its history in detail and mapping pretty much all there is to know about the DPRK’s current military endeavors. This comprehensive information is accompanied by well over 150 unique images, most of which have never been seen by the general public.

Volume 1 - The Southern Front E.R. Hooton

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 80 illustrations March 2022 • HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507077-7

In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times. The success was almost a decade in the making following the Suez Crisis of 1956 with the Israeli forces being radically changed under the direction of the Magi. These changes created an army and air force upon which the country would rely when it became obvious the international community would take no action to implement guarantees made after the Suez Crisis.

Volume 6 - The Arab Air Forces in Crisis April 1941 -

December 1942 David Nicolle Air Vice Marshal Gabr Ali Gabr

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • March 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507076-0

Volume 6 of Air Power and the Arab World, 19091955 continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. These years saw the Arab countries and their military forces already caught up in the events of the Second World War. For those Arab nations which had some degree of independence, the resulting political, cultural and economic strains had a profound impact upon their military forces.

Volume 2 - From Khark to Sirri, 1982-1986 Tom Cooper E.R. Hooton

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • June 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-91-507080-7

Well away from major land battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War, and curious eyes of the public, the navies of the two involved parties fought a major naval war. Ironically, the mass of their efforts remain entirely unknown until this very day. The Iran-Iraq Naval War describes and illustrates the key combatants and the most intense operations of both sides. Destroyers, frigates, corvettes, and fast missile crafts are all covered in thoroughly researched text, photographs and custom-drawn color profiles, as are aircraft and helicopters supporting them. This book is thus taking the taking the reader in the middle of the action at sea and in the skies above it.

The Syrian Civil War 2011-2013 Tom Cooper

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • c 150 color & b/w photos, color profiles, maps • February 2022 HIS026000 • 978-1-91-507081-4

The Syrian Civil War has experienced an entirely unexpected transformation during its first two years. It started as unrest within the Syrian population and a series of mass demonstrations within the context of wider protest movements in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, known as the Arab Spring. Contrary to events in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, where oppressive governments were toppled by the end of that year, the government of Syria deployed its military, its intelligence apparatus, and para-military groups, launching an unprecedented crackdown that resulted in the arrest, detention and killing of many thousands.

Volume 2 - Egypt, 1948-1990 Martin Smisek

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • February 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507078-4

During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East among the Soviet Bloc countries. The second volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms exports from Czechoslovakia to Egypt including related military assistance.

Volume 3 - North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran, 1948-1990 Martin Smisek

Middle East@War • $29.95 • Paperback 88 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507079-1

During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East among the Soviet Bloc countries. The third volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms exports from Czechoslovakia to North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran including related military assistance.

Volume 1 - South-West African Police Counterinsurgency Operations during the South African Border War, 1978-1984 Steve Crump

Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 50 color & b/w photos, 3 maps March 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507056-2

Koevoet tells of the origination and deployment of the South West African Police’s elite counter-insurgency capability during the South African Border War, 1978 – 1989. Drawing reference from a number of previously unpublished sources and from interviews with a number of key personalities, including former members of Koevoet, this volume, the first of two, documents the formation of Koevoet and its early operations up to 1984. The book examines the background and context to the South West African conflict and details the early experiences of the South African Police in seeking to counter SWAPO/PLAN activities. Color profiles detail some of the Mine-Protected Vehicles (MPV’s) used by Koevoet including the iconic Casspir and Wolf. Uniforms and insignia of Koevoet are presented in specially commissioned full color plates.

Volume 1 - The Force Publique, 1885-1960 Stephen Rookes

Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 80 b/w photos, 30 color photos, 4 maps, 12-15 color profiles • April 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507054-8

Though the dynamics of the Congo Crisis have received, and continue to receive, a good deal of literary and scholarly attention, missing from the canon of work on military forces in the Congo is a study of the Force Publique, a paramilitary police force established by King Léopold II to secure the Congo Free State and to protect a vast geographical swathe of Central Africa that had become his own personal possession following the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885. In many ways, the absence of any study on the origins of the Force Publique to its dissolution in 1960 means that our knowledge surrounding the history of the Belgian Congo and the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo is incomplete. For aviation enthusiasts, this volume is significant in that its objective is to provide a history of the development of air travel to and from the Belgian Congo in addition to examining the evolution of military air forces in the colony.

Volume 5 - Angolan and Cuban Air Forces, 1987-1992 Adrien Fontanellaz Tom Cooper

Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • May 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507055-5

Through late 1987, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border to South-West Africa (Namibia), until the show-down between the Soviet-supported government in Luanda and South African-supported insurgency of UNITA culminated in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. Initially reluctant to become involved, the Cubans reinforced their contingent in Angola, and then decided to force Pretoria into negotiations about mutual withdrawal. Ironically, while Cuba and South Africa eventually agreed to withdraw their troops from the Angolan War, and then did so, in 1988-1989, the government in Lunda – still supported by the Soviet Union – then reinforced its effort to crush the UNITA. The result were additional large-scale operations, the mass of which evaded attention outside Angola, because dramatic developments in Europe not only distracted attention, but also ended the decades-long stand-off between the East and the West.

US Intervention 1992-1994 Peter Baxter

Africa@War • $29.95 • Paperback 80 pages • 8.25x11.75 • 8pp color photos, c 100 b/w photos, maps • January 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-91-507057-9

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, all this changed. The question of global/strategic security devolved into regional peacekeeping and peace enforcement, characterized primarily by the Balkans War, but also many other minor regional squabbles across the developing world that erupted as old regimes fell and nations sought to build unity out of the ashes. In Africa the situation was exacerbated by an inherent tribalism and factionalism that had tended to be artificially suppressed by powerful, often military, dictatorships, generally unconcerned with the needs and requirements of an oppressed population.No more striking example of this can be found than Somalia. This book tells the story of the international intervention that took place in Somalia, the successes, failures and lessons learned. Many broad assumptions were made based on an unclear understanding of the dynamics of a regional conflict, coupled with the necessity for the first time in modern military history to balance political necessities with military.

Volume 4 - The Battle of Ceresole, 14 April 1544 Massimo Predonzani Vincenzo Alberici

From Retinue to Regiment • $39.95 Paperback • 192 pages • 7x9.75 40 b/w ills, 8 color plates • June 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507029-6

After almost twenty years from the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most powerful European States faced each other again in battle. On one side, French and Swiss. On the other side, Imperials and the dreaded Landsknechts. The memory of the carnage of the Black Bands and Swiss soldiers is still vivid in the Swiss veterans’ minds. On Easter day 1544, the two armies engaged in battle but the outcome remained unclear.The day after, however, the men led by Bourbon seemed to prevail. The Imperial cavalry was defeated by the French – who demonstrated again their bravery. The initial success of the Spanish infantry was soon jeopardized by the gruesome clash between the Imperial square formations and the Swiss. The Enfants perdus detached from the Swiss square and massacred the enemy with their halberds with a flank attack. A wrong maneuver of the Imperial cavalry broke their companions’ formation and signed the Imperial defeat.

A History of the Development, Manufacture and Use of Artillery, 1494-1628 Jonathan Davies

From Retinue to Regiment • $49.95 Paperback • 280 pages • 7x9.75 100 b/w ills, diagrams, drawings; c 12 color photos, over 30 tables May 2022 • HIS027080 978-1-91-507028-9

Through the extensive use of contemporary sources, the author has written what may be called a modern version of the The Compleat Gunner. This is a summary of all the best advice on how to inspect, load, aim a cannon and even how to hit the target. This book deals with every aspect of the gunners’ art including the loading, instruments and ammunition as well as the manufacture of gunpowder and saltpeter. This book contains the first authoritative summaries of the recent manufacture and trials of guns from this period. These were by the Royal armories/ Mary Rose Trust, the Vasa Museum and the Danish Middle Ages Center. These trials have provided invaluable hard evidence of the reliability, accuracy and hitting power of a range of contemporary weapons. This material is well supplemented with contemporary evidence concerning the use and effect of guns on land and sea.

The Daily Life of Samurai and Soldiers in Edo Period Japan, 1603-1721 Michael Fredholm von Essen

Century of the Soldier • $60 Paperback • 552 pages • 7x9.75 c 290 b/w ills, 8 color plates, 3 maps, 16 tables • February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507033-3

Tokugawa Ieyasu’s decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shogun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600-1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle established his capital in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). By then, Japan was an advanced, outward-looking country. Having defeated their enemies early in the century, the shogunate warriors settled down in castle towns. Many Tokugawa retainers settled permanently in Edo. There they soon lost the military edge they once had enjoyed. After 1615, the shogun’s soldiers were no longer needed for war. Technically, there was no demobilization. However, with no more wars to fight, the shogun’s soldiers in all but name became townsmen. The focus of the present book is a military and social history of how the formerly so powerful Tokugawa clan army rapidly lost its combat preparedness, and how this persuaded the Tokugawa shogunate to initiate a policy of enforced seclusion.

West Indies and Latin America René Chartrand

Century of the Soldier • $50 Paperback • 320 pages • 7x9.75 200 b/w ills. 42 color ills • May 2022 HIS027000 • 978-1-91-507035-7

Louis XIV, France’s Sun King, had global Overseas Grand Visions for his nation. In America, his transformation of struggling small Caribbean settlements into an extensive and very prosperous French domain amidst many challenges and battles are mostly unknown. Thanks to research mostly in France’s overseas archives, we offer this study. In its first nine chapters, covering the 16th to the early 18th century, the West Indies and much of coastal Latin America were in near-perpetual hostilities largely caused by the fantastic riches found in America. Spain claimed the continent with its gold and silver, often eliminating foreigners by the sword. The remaining chapters and appendices outlay the organization of regular troops, notably the hitherto largely unknown establishments of Compagnies franches de la Marine (independent companies of the navy) of the Islands as permanent garrisons in the West Indies and Guyana, their services, lifestyles, weapons, uniforms and colors.

The Life and Career of the Regicide, Thomas Pride Robert Hodkinson

Century of the Soldier • $47.50 • Paperback 224 pages • 6x9 • 15 b/w ills • January 2022 BIO008000 • 978-1-91-507093-7

Cromwell’s Buffoon is a detailed and engaging account of the life of soldier and regicide, Colonel Thomas Pride, a Somerset farmer’s son who fought his way through the Civil Wars to become one of the English Commonwealth’s most forceful personalities. Robert Hodkinson’s lively and authoritative study charts Thomas Pride’s rise from businessman and brewer, through his association with London Puritanism, the experiences of the seventeenth century battlefield, obtaining military command through army mutiny, to finally brushing aside accusations of hypocrisy self-gain to claim ownership of a former Royal estate and a seat in Cromwell’s House of Lords.

Waging Civil War in Shropshire 1642-1648 Jonathan Worton

Century of the Soldier • $37.50 • Paperback 208 pages • 6.75x9.75 • c 60 maps, tables, and b/w & color plates • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507094-4

This book reveals for the first time the extent of military activity in Shropshire, describing the sieges, skirmishes and larger engagements, while reflecting on the nature of warfare elsewhere across Civil War England and Wales. In also providing a social context to the military history of the period, it explains how Royalist and Parliamentarian activists set local government on a wartime footing, and how the populace generally became involved in the administrative and material tasks of war effort.

Colonel Francis Thornhaugh (1617-1648) and the Nottinghamshire Horse

Stuart B. Jennings

Century of the Soldier • $35 • Paperback 120 pages • 7x9.75 • 23 ills, maps tbc May 2022 • BIO008000 • 978-1-91-507034-0

By the time of his death at the age of 31 at the Battle of Preston in 1648, Francis Thornhagh had achieved considerable military and political success. Appointed colonel and commander of the Nottinghamshire at the age of 26, with Henry Ireton as his major, he saw considerable military action, including fight against Prince Rupert and Charles Gerard. This book explores both his military activities alongside other leading parliamentarians and his support of the army as an Independent MP over the years 1646-48.

Jonathon Riley

English Expeditions under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1650–1660

Century of the Soldier • $45 • Paperback 284 pages • 7x9.75 • 125 ills, 26 maps, 16 tables January 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507037-1

The Colonial Ironsides is a comprehensive survey of the role played by Oliver Cromwell’s expeditionary forces in subduing royalist outposts abroad after the conclusion of the Civil Wars in the Three Kingdoms: the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the Scillies, the West Indies and North America. Beyond that, the book details the launch of the Western Design against Spain in the Caribbean and during its course, the failure of the expedition against San Domingo and the conquest of Jamaica.

Defending the Protestant Hegemony

Malcolm Wanklyn

Century of the Soldier • $42.50 • Paperback 232 pages • 7x9.75 • 2-4 maps, ills TBC June 2022 • HIS027000 • 978-1-91-507036-4

Established in 1603 and initially composed almost entirely of English officers and soldiers for the first thirty years of its existence, the army’s strength waxed and waned in accordance with the English government’s assessment of the security situation in Ireland. However, during the governorship of Thomas Wentworth it was seen as a possible instrument for enforcing royal rule in all three of the Stuart kingdoms. In 1640, some 8,000 strong, it was geared up for a campaign against Charles I’s rebellious Scottish subjects, but it never left Ireland as by the time it was ready to do so the Scots had defeated the king.

The Last Battle on English Soil Jonathan David Oates

Century of the Soldier • $55 • Paperback 272 pages • 7x9.75 • 12 b/w pictures, 8 color pictures, tables, 8 maps/plans, 3 pie charts, 155 tables • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507031-9

The second battle of Preston was the first battle of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and was the last to be fought on English soil. This book provides a new account of the events leading up to the campaign, focussing on events in England but not neglecting those in Scotland and on the Continent. It then moves onto explore the movements of both armies, British and Jacobite, and not neglecting civilian forces, as they marched through Northumberland, the Scottish Lowlands and then in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire.

Volume 2 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660 Michael Fredholm von Essen

Century of the Soldier • $55 Paperback • 240 pages • 7x9.75 100 b/w ills, color artwork TBC June 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507030-2

The book describes and analyses the two devastating wars fought between Sweden and Denmark-Norway during the reign of Swedish King Charles X Gustavus, an experienced former general from the Thirty Years’ War. The Dano-Swedish War of 1657-1658 was initiated by King Frederick III of Denmark and Norway, who saw an opportunity to recover the territories lost in 1645 and attacked Sweden while the Swedish King was fighting two simultaneous wars in the east. Fighting also took place on the border between Sweden and Norway.

Charles II’s Colonial Venture in the Mediterranean, 1661-1684 Andrew Abram

Century of the Soldier • $65 Paperback • 376 pages • 7x9.75 40 b/w ills, 6 color ills, 8pp color plates, 6 maps • March 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507032-6

Based on primary archival research and published sources, this book represents a focused, and modern assessment of the raising, equipping and composition of the standing army of Charles II, and the role played by the garrison of Tangier between 1661 and 1684. When Charles landed in Dover in 1660 he inherited two regular armies, both owing him allegiance – the New Model (by then regular or standing army) in England under Monck; and the force of exiled royalists in Flanders and the garrison of Dunkirk.

Wars 1774-1819 David C.J. Howell

An Account of the Actions and Services of the British Army in India During the Anglo-Maratha

From Reason to Revolution • $55 • Paperback 424 pages • 6.75x9.75 • 37 b/w & color ills May 2022 • HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507045-6

In 1774 the British East India Company engineered a war against one of India’s most challenging peoples, the Marathas, in order to strengthen the security of its existing dominions and to expand territory and influence. It was a mistake which caused the surrender, retreat and humiliation of a British army and left the Marathas in an improved position militarily.

The British Army in Flanders, 1793-1795 R.N.W. Thomas

From Reason to Revolution • $55 • Paperback 320 pages • 6.75x9.75 • 10-20 color & b/w ills, 2 maps, 48 tables • February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507040-1

The historiography of eighteenth and early nineteenth century campaigns is dominated by operational narratives and biographies of senior officers. How armies were staffed, fed and medically provisioned was critical to their successful performance in the field, yet much less is known of these key issues. By using predominantly unpublished sources, including the General Orders issued by the Duke of York’s headquarters, it has been possible to provide considerable detail on the structures necessary for the daily functioning of an army on campaign.

The Quiberon Expedition of 1795 and the CounterRevolution in Brittany Alistair Nichols

From Reason to Revolution • $45 • Paperback 256 pages • 7x9.75 • 8pp color section, c 12 b/w ills, 6 maps • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507043-2

In 1795, French émigrés came ashore to expand their fight against the French republican regime. Landing from British ships, they were part of an expedition that was paid for, supplied and supported by Britain. Little has been written about the expedition in English, this book seeks to provide a comprehensive account of the expedition. Drawing on memoirs, archival material and historical works it seeks to place the expedition within the context of wider events.

By Fire and Bayonet

Grey’s West Indies Campaign of 1794 Steve Brown

From Reason to Revolution $42.50 • Paperback • 248 pages 6x9 • 12 b/w ills & 8 maps January 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507090-6

There have been few books about Grey’s glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey’s expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington’s Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke’s Royal Artillery; and one (Richard Fletcher) - famously - the Royal Engineers. Sir Charles Grey was one of the most aggressive British generals of the era - something his gentlemanly appearance and demeanor did not immediately indicate. Ever cheerful and optimistic - and humane and loyal to his friends - his ability to deliver needle-sharp assaults and then harry a defeated enemy makes him one of the more interesting personalities of the early portion of the ‘Great War with France.’

The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815 Quintin Barry

From Reason to Revolution • $45 Paperback • 352 pages • 6x9 21 ills & 7 maps/charts February 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507091-3

Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. The American naval historian A.T. Mahan memorably summed up the contribution of the Royal Navy to the ultimate defeat of Napoleon when he wrote: “Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the domination of the world.” Drawing on the official and personal correspondence of those involved, this book traces the development of British naval strategy, as well as describing the crucial encounters between the rival fleets and the single ship actions which provided the press with a constant flow of news stories for its readers.

The Channel Fleet 1778-1783 Quintin Barry

From Reason to Revolution • $45 • Paperback 336 pages • 6x9 • c 25 b/w images; c 4 maps • February 2022 • HIS027150 978-1-91-507039-5

In 1778, when the expected war finally broke with France, Lord Sandwich, the long serving First Lord of the Admiralty, had to find the resources to match the French fleet not only in the Channel but in other theaters of war such as the West Indies, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. In addition, the Royal Navy had to protect Britain’s extensive maritime commerce, covering the large inbound and outbound convoys on which the country’s economy depended. This book is a study of the men who led and the men who managed, both afloat and ashore, the Channel Fleet.

The Dutch Army in the War of Liberation and the Hundred Days 1813-1815 Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar

From Reason to Revolution • $42.50 Paperback • 204 pages • 7x9.75 • 8 color plates, c 60 b/w ills • May 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507046-3

Although it contains lots of detailed information about uniforms, arms and equipment, is packed with maps, orders of battle, and regimental genealogies, contains full color artwork, and shows much previously-unpublished material from contemporary sources and private collections, Worthy of Praise is first and foremost a book about the men who served in that army. In this book, that story is told through the exploits of the men that answered the call and joined the army during the War of Liberation.

Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814

Yuhan Kim

From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 360 pages • 6.75x9.75 8pp color plates, c 30 b/w ills, 30 maps June 2022 • HIS027200 • 978-1-91-507047-0

Napoleon once famously remarked “If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it.” To Conquer and to Keep is the first English-language book to focus on the operations of Louis-Gabriel Suchet and his army in Eastern Spain in its detailed entirety. Despite being universally accepted as among the best of Napoleon’s marshals, the pivotal role Suchet played in the Peninsular War has largely been overlooked thus far.

A struggle for survival from Egypt to the Balkans Bruno Mugnai

From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 320 pages • 7x9.75 16 color plates, 100 b/w images, pictures, diagrams & maps • June 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507048-7

The book examines changes and development of the Ottoman army from the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt until the Serbian uprisings in 1804-13 and 1815, also including a detailed description of dress and equipment of the Ottoman soldiers of this period.

Proceedings of the 2021 Helion and Company ’From Reason to Revolution’ Conference Robert Griffith Andrew Bamford

From Reason to Revolution • $39.95 Paperback • 168 pages • 6x9 • 20 illustrations March 2022 • HIS027200 • 978-1-91-507041-8

Containing chapters from some of the leading specialists in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this volume covers a diverse range of topics that examine in detail aspects of the armies that fought for and against France from 1792-1815. Containing chapters from some of the leading specialists in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this volume covers a diverse range of topics.

Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle

Michael Crumplin Gareth Glover

From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 312 pages • 6.75x9.75 177 original b/w line drawings, 19 b/w ills, 23 b/w photos • March 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507092-0

After the Battle of Waterloo5, around 62,000 Allied and French wounded flooded into Brussels, Antwerp, and other towns. New data concerning the fate of the thousands of Allied and some French casualties has emerged from the library of the University of Edinburgh. This has revealed a collection of over 170 wound sketches, detailed case reports, and the surgical results from five Brussels Hospitals.

Levin von Bennigsen’s Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807. Volume I - Pultusk to Eylau Alexander Mikaberidze Paul Strietelmeier

From Reason to Revolution • $42.50 Paperback • 224 pages • 6.75x9.75 36 b/w ills, 5 maps • April 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507044-9

Translated for the first time into English, this memoir offers unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Poland during the winter of 1806-1807.

British Regimental Leadership in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars

Steve Brown

From Reason to Revolution • $49.95 Paperback • 344 pages • 6.75x9.75 c 30 b/w ills • March 2022 • HIS027200 978-1-91-507042-5

This book seeks to bring the battalion commanders of the British army in the period 1793 to 1815 into sharp focus and enable to see their progression - how the field officers of Wellington’s victorious Peninsula army of 1814 were dramatically better equipped for their roles than their earlier counterparts in Flanders in 1793. There have been other books covering the general workings of the British Army of the era, never one purely concentrated on Field Officers, and their contribution to unit leadership.

Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy Alexander S. Burns

From Reason to Revolution • $65 • Hardback 280 pages • 6.75x9.75 • 10-20 b/w maps & tables • June 2022 • HIS027060 978-1-91-507038-8

Over the last 60 years, British historian Professor Christopher Duffy has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of warfare in the late Old Regime. The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare is a festschrift honoring Professor Duffy’s legacy in writing on this pivotal period of military history. The book collects sixteen essays by scholars from seven countries on three continents, which together tell the story of the dynamic nature of warfare in the Old Regime.

The Sikh Warrior through the ages, c17001900

Gurinder Singh Mann

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $37.50 Paperback • 264 pages • 6x9 • 2 8pp color sections, 10 maps, b/w images TBC February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-507052-4

The might and prowess of the Sikhs has been noted in the annals of history but what actually constitutes this development has seldom been discussed or understood in a meaningful context. The book considers the rise of military methods from the time of the Gurus and what the tenth preceptor Guru Gobind Singh was trying to achieve with the formation of the Khalsa or fraternity of the pure.

Vol 2 - Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Republican Phase of the War. Ralph Weaver

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $35 Paperback • 156 pages • 7x9.75 20 color plates, b/w ills • March 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507050-0

Many books have been written on the campaigns and battles of the Franco-German War of 1870-71; this is the first to center on the armies themselves.

The Anglo- Egyptian Campaign to Reconquer the Sudan, 1896-1898 Keith Surridge

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $45 Paperback • 200 pages • 7x9.75 c15 b/w ills, 10 maps • April 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507051-7

On 2 September 1898, the Anglo-Egyptian army under General Kitchener crushed the Mahdist Sudanese army of the Khalifa Abdallahi at the battle of Omdurman. Depictions of the battle, in books and films, have too often depicted it as the hapless slaughter of the Mahdists by a modern, well-equipped professional army. This book seeks to show, however, that the battle was not a foregone conclusion and that the result might have been closer if the Mahdists had conformed to their battle-plan.

1837-1901 Christopher Brice

Studies in the Exercise of Command and Control in the British Army

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $49.95 Hardback • 284 pages • 6x9 • 8 b/w illustrations, 6 b/w maps • Currently Available BIO008000 • 978-1-914377-28-0

Many of the British Army’s actions during the Victorian Era are forgotten, misunderstood and misrepresented. This new work provides some examples of the many interesting and talented officers who exercised command during the Victorian Era. It is hoped that such a work will be of interest to both the casual reader and the student of military history. Much of the military history of this age has been unfairly ignored, and there are many powerful and important lessons to be learned from the careers of the men included in this book.

British and Irish Volunteers in the Papal Army 1860-70 Nicholas Schofield

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $42.50 Paperback • 256 pages • 7x9.75 45 b/w ills, mostly photos, paintings or engravings/prints, 3 maps (TBC) • May 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-507053-1

This book focuses on the turbulent period between 1860 and 1870, which saw a Piedmontese invasion of the Papal States, an attempted capture of Rome by Garibaldi and finally the newly formed Italian Army’s attack of 1870, which left Rome as the kingdom’s capital. It was also a time of reform and modernization in the pontifical army, with the introduction of new weapons and technologies. Based on contemporary accounts and archives, Victorian Crusaders studies the Catholic volunteer movement between 1860 and 1870 from a British and Irish perspective.

English Translation Colonel (Oberst) Heidrich Ernst Gerard Henry

From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 • $59.95 Paperback • 440 pages • 6.75x9.75 6 b/w photos, 3 maps • June 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507049-4

The battle of Königgrätz was the largest battle ever fought in western Europe until the advent of WWI and its political consequences were no less epic. The demise of Austria as a European Great Power, the loss of her historic pre-eminence among the German nations, and the final, incontestable rise of Prussia. This meticulous translation of Heidrich’s brilliant monograph, takes us through the fighting, hour by hour and foot by bloody foot, in a narrative unsurpassed for detail or accuracy.

6th Airborne Division in Normandy - Generating Combat Effectiveness: November 1942 – September 1944

Andrew Wheale

Wolverhampton Military Studies • $42.50 Hardback • 224 pages • 6.75x9.75 10 photos, 14 maps, 10 tables/charts April 2022 • HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507085-2

The highly effective leadership of Major-General Richard Gale overcame the haphazard nature of airborne operations 1939-1945, and enabled the unproven British 6th Airborne Division to achieve its objectives during the Normandy Campaign. Despite its scattered parachute landings 6th Airborne achieved its D-Day goals, and held the line for three months, a task for which it was not equipped. This study examines the factors that made this possible and analyses Gale’s impact on the Division’s organizational development, preparation and training.

The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942 Roger Salmon

Wolverhampton Military Studies • $45 Paperback • 240 pages • 6x9 53 b/w ills, 10 tables • January 2022 HIS027080 • 978-1-91-507096-8

The mechanization of British and Household Cavalry regiments took place between the two World Wars and on into 1942. This book describes the process by which many horsed cavalrymen were re-trained to operate and fight in armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) and the experiences of some of the men and regiments involved. Extensive use has been made of regimental and War Office archives, and particularly from the Imperial War Museum’s sound archives - the oral testimonies of soldiers who had experienced this huge change. 44

The British Army on the Western Front 1916 Spencer Jones Professor Peter Simkins

Wolverhampton Military Studies • $55 Paperback • 533 pages • 6x9 • 16pp color map section, 3 b/w maps, 68 b/w photos, 26 b/w ills, 9 tables, 2 figures • March 2022 • HIS027090 978-1-91-507095-1

1916 was a pivotal year for the British Army. It was a year of intense combat that was defined by the Battle of the Somme and the appalling casualties of the 1st July 1916. Yet it was also the year in which the British Army began to master industrial warfare and the tide of the war began to turn in favor of the Allies. This book brings together leading scholars of the First World War to examine the experience of the British Army in this controversial year. It includes essays which consider Britain’s grand strategy, intelligence gathering, the development of logistics and the performance of Dominion forces.

$47.50 • Paperback • 536 pages • 6.75x9.75 c 56 b/w photos, c 30 color ills,15pp tables April 2022 • HIS027090 • 978-1-91-511308-5

The book is the first to examine comprehensively the experience of the Highland soldier in the Great War, seeking the truth behind the myths. It does not deal with the operational history, but with the life and character of the Highland soldier. It involves a far more comprehensive search of the original sources than previously attempted, being based on the original letters, diaries and accounts of serving soldiers and officers, principally from the Imperial War Museum, the Liddle Collection, the National Library of Scotland and the Regimental Museums, which together provide great richness of personal detail.

Officers and Leadership in the British Expeditionary Force 1914 Spencer Jones

Wolverhampton Military Studies • $50 Paperback • 384 pages • 6x9 20 b/w photos, 8pp maps • February 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-507097-5

The British Expeditionary Force of 1914 was described by the official historian as “incomparably the best trained, best organized, and best equipped British Army that ever went forth to war.” The BEF proved its fighting qualities in the fierce battles of 1914 and its reputation has endured. However, the same cannot be said for many of its commanders, who have frequently been portrayed as old fashioned, incompetent, and out of touch with events on the battlefield. This book is a revised and expanded second edition including amendments, a new introduction and additional images.

The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915 Rodney Ashwood

$47.50 • Paperback • 336 pages • 6x9 38 b/w photos, 20 b/w maps & 6 b/w tables May 2022 • HIS027090 978-1-91-511301-6

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, between April 1915 and January 1916. By December 1914, the war on the Western Front had ground to a halt in a stalemate of trench warfare, and Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, proposed a strategy to take Turkey, a German ally, out of the war. This could force Germany to fight on two fronts and could free up the Dardanelles waterway at Gallipoli. While the concept was sound, its execution was not.

Willem Steenkamp Al J Venter

$49.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 8.25x11.75 • 300+ color & b/w photos • February 2022 HIS027130 • 978-1-91-511300-9

Of all the books about South Africa’s 21-year ‘Border War’ - fought on both sides of Angola’s frontier with present-day Namibia - South Africa’s Border War has always been rated as among the best. A significant, full-color volume, it originally sold 31,000 copies in South Africa alone and has been out of print for decades. This version is the first re-issue of the original, written by Willem Steenkamp. Almost all the photos were taken by Al J. Venter who covered that conflict intermittently for almost two decades. Both Steenkamp and Venter have gone on to produce other works on that bitter conflict, but neither they nor anybody else has been able to match this beautiful coffee-table volume.

40 Commando in the Falklands War Peter Jackson-Lee

$29.95 • Paperback • 240 pages 6x9 • 37 b/w photos March 2022 • HIS027130 978-1-91-507089-0

San Carlos to Stanley dispels the belief that 40 Commando just looked after the beachhead during the Falkland’s. Commadore Clapp requested the men of 40 Commando remain at San Carlos as he knew he could trust them to defend his anchorage and use his assets with intelligence as without this there would be no advance. Elements of 40 Commando was initially tasked to fly from RAF St Mawgan to Ascension Island and then to the Falkland’s via an RFA as tension heightened with Argentina. A Company, 40 Commando eventually left the UK onboard HMS Hermes ahead of the main task force. San Carlos to Stanley has many personal accounts from officers and men of 40 Commando.

The German Cavalry Pursuit of the British Expeditionary Force Before the Battle of the Marne August 1914 Colonel (Ret) Joseph Robinson Sabine Declercq

$65 • Paperback • 396 pages 6.75x9.75 • 27 b/w photos/ills, 15 b/w maps • February 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-507083-8

Written as a sequel to the award winning German Failure in Belgium which won the Tomlinson Book Award for the best book on World War I in the English language for 2020, this book stands alone as the German army chases the well documented “Great Retreat.” We focus on the German side of the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). We show that the Great War should have ended on 23 August 1914 but, due to the ‘fog and friction of war’, as explained by General Carl Graf von Clausewitz, it did not. So, Chasing the Great Retreat was born. This is an incredible story of missed opportunities made more astonishing by the amount of propaganda extolled by some British authors.

History & Legacy Karl-Gunnar Norén Lars Gyllenhaal

$29.95 • Paperback • 160 pages 6x9 • 30 b&w ills, 31 color ills, 5 maps • February 2022 • HIS027000 978-1-91-511306-1

The world’s most respected special forces unit, the Special Air Service (SAS), was inspired by another irregular unit, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) or simply Ghost Patrol. You may now accompany the authors in Ghost Patrol vehicles far, far behind Rommel’s lines. While doing so you will acquire insights into some extreme raids and reconnaissance missions. You will become familiar with tactics and inventions of the Ghost Patrol that are still relevant today. This book is also the story of an LRDG research expedition to modern Egypt undertaken in original WWII Jeeps and described as a “2300-mile Sahara epic” by Classic & Sports Car magazine. Original LRDG training notes and other tips for extreme travellers are included.

The Victorio Campaign 1880 Robert N. Watt

$59.95 • Paperback • 500 pages 6.75x9.75 • 109 b/w photos, 25 color maps, 2 b/w sketches, 29 tables, 8 figures • January 2022 HIS027110 • 978-1-91-511303-0

This study, following on from the author’s acclaimed book I Will Not Surrender a Hair of a Horse’s Tail, commences with Victorio’s return to New Mexico in January 1880. The US army’s January to February campaign illustrates the operational decoy strategy employed by Victorio to protect his own logistic support while simultaneously undermining that of his opponents. By the end of May 1880, Victorio’s warriors have rendered the Ninth Cavalry unfit for field service. This was achieved through the Apache strategy of directly and indirectly targeting the US army’s horses and mules. Yet the Apaches also suffer their first major defeat of the campaign at the end of May.

Nana’s War 1880-1881 Robert N. Watt

$59.95 • Paperback • 376 pages 6.75x9.75 • 50 b/w photos, 10 color maps, 27 tables, 5 figures January 2022 • HIS037060 978-1-91-511309-2

The third volume takes up the story of the continued struggle for the return of their Ojo Caliente reservation after Victorio’s death at Tres Castillos. Led by Nana, the surviving Chihenne Apaches regrouped and, despite their losses, decided to continue the fight. In January 1881, these Apaches launched several attacks in southern New Mexico but, for the moment, avoided direct confrontation with the US army, choosing to evade their pursuers. Having returned to northern Mexico, Nana returned to New Mexico in July and August to lead one of the legendary raids of the Apache wars between 1860 and 1886. While this event deserves legendary status, the numbers of US troops deployed against the Apaches has been exaggerated. Moreover, the numerical advantage of the actual numbers of US troops deployed was usually offset by the scope and knowledge of the terrain traversed by the Apaches.

Red Army Forces David M. Glantz

Volume 3 - The Documentary Companion Tables Orders and Reports prepared by participating

$59.95 • Paperback • 632 pages • 6x9 16 b/w maps • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507098-2 David M. Glantz lives in Carlisle, PA

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. This book includes the daily operational summaries of the participating Soviet fronts, armies, and some divisions and many if not most of the orders and reports issued by the struggling Soviet armies.

Volume 4: Atlas David M. Glantz

$69.95 • Paperback 152 pages • 10.5x9.5 120 color maps • May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507099-9 David M. Glantz lives in Carlisle, PA

Serving as both a companion to the previous three text volumes in this monumental study, and as a standalone battlefield atlas, this volume provides over one hundred specially-commissioned color maps that trace the course of the campaign, each accompanied by a detailed caption.

The Red Army’s Summer Offensive into the Balkans Soviet General Staff Richard W. Harrison

$49.95 • Paperback • 320 pages • 6.75x9.75 3 maps • February 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-511304-7

The Iasi—Kishinev Operation, 20-29 August 1944: The Red Army’s Summer Offensive into the Balkans details the Soviet preparation and conduct of the Red Army’s massive offensive into Romania in the summer of 1944. The seventh of the ten strategic operations conducted by the Soviet armed forces that year, the operation successfully carried out the task of destroying German forces in northern Romania and taking Germany’s Romanian satellite out of the war, and was the first step in Stalin’s consolidation of a Balkan empire.

Volume 2 Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton

$59.95 • Paperback • 568 pages 6.75x9.75 • 79 b/w photos, 39 tables, 7 color maps January 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507082-1

Volume 2 is devoted to the preparation by Moscow of hostilities near Kursk in the spring and early summer of 1943 and consists of two parts. Part I analyzes the activities of the Stavka B of the Air Command, the General Staff of the Red Army, the command of the Central and Voronezh fronts to restore troops after the battles in the winter of 1942-1943 and their strengthening before the summer campaign. In the second part the author describes the Red Army’s planning in the area of the Kursk salient in late June - early July 1943, and also considers the major problems that arose for them during this period.

Top JG 52 Aces over Hungary 1944-45 Daniel Horvath Gabor Horvath

$49.95 • Paperback • 256 pages 8.25x11.75 • 49 color images, 107 B/W images, 147 tables, 13 charts, 5 color maps • February 2022 HIS027140 • 978-1-91-507087-6 Daniel Horvath lives in Canada

As new military archival materials began to surface internationally, it became necessary to update and correct some of the legendary chapters of aviation history including world records of the Luftwaffe’s famous and most successful fighter unit, Jagdgeschwader 52. In this book, the reader will find a fundamental analysis of the aerial victory claims of the top eight JG 52 fighter aces over Hungary throughout 1944-1945. The method of analysis within this book is very simple: if a plane was shot down by a pilot, then the opposing side had to lose a corresponding plane. While it is true that Soviet aerial losses were inaccessible to most researchers for the past several decades, it is also true that this lack of information created a plethora of legends of the aerial war over the Eastern Front.

Controversial and Neglected Aspects Valeriy Zamulin Stuart Britton

$49.95 • Paperback • 416 pages 6.75x9.75 • 154 photos & 8pp color maps • April 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-511305-4

In this book, noted historian of the Battle of Kursk Valeriy Zamulin, the author of multiple Russian-language books on the Battle of Kursk takes a fresh look at several controversial and neglected topics regarding the battle and its run-up. He starts with a detailed look at the Soviet and Russian historiography on the battle, showing how initially promising research was swamped by Party dogma and censorship during the Brezhnev area. Zamulin then transitions to discussions of how the southern shoulder of the Kursk bulge was formed, preparations for the battle on both sides, and the size and composition of Model’s Ninth Army. He then examines such controversial topics as whether or not the II SS Panzer Corps was aware of the pending Soviet counterattack at Prokhorovka, and the effectiveness of the Soviet preemptive barrage that struck the German troops that were poised to attack.

Volume 2 - From Lublin to Berlin July 1944-May 1945 Igor Nebolsin Stuart Britton

$59.95 • Paperback • 552 pages 6.75x9.75 • c 400 b/w photos, numerous tables, 16pp color maps • March 2022 • HIS027100 • 978-1-91-511307-8

The author Igor Nebolsin continues with his detailed chronology of the 2nd Guards Tank Army’s combat operations. This volume includes the hard fighting outside of Warsaw in the summer of 1944; the 2nd Belorussian Front’s winter offensive in the Vistula – Oder operation and the ensuing combat in Pomerania; and the final assault on Berlin, when the 2nd Guards Tank Army enveloped the German capital from the north and entered the city from north and west, fighting its way to the Tiergarten Park in the heart of Berlin.

Vladimir Kotelnikov

$75 • Paperback • 536 pages 8.25x11.75 • c 750 b/w photos, c 10 scale drawings, c 50 color side views • June 2022 HIS027140 978-1-91-507088-3

From the end of the 1920s onwards almost all the aircraft operating in the USSR were indigenously produced machines. Following President T. Roosevelt’s accession to power in the USA, the center of gravity for Soviet aviators shifted to the United States. In the mid-1930s a series of licensing agreements were concluded, and as a result three American types entered series production in the Soviet Union. Of these, the most widespread was the PS-84 (the Li-2), the Soviet variant of the DC-3. The history of these types is documented in full, taking the story beyond the confines of 1941.

The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 Massimiliano Afiero Ralph Riccio

$55 • Hardback • 264 pages 6.75x9.75 • 120-150 photos May 2022 • HIS027100 978-1-91-507086-9

This book is the first comprehensive account in the English language that addresses the genesis, organization, and operations of Italian forces that fought alongside the Germans and other contingents allied with the Germans in Russia beginning with Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 until the defeat of the Italian forces there in early 1943. In accordance with his anti-Bolshevik ideology, Mussolini felt obligated to join with Germany’s attack against the Soviet Union. Italy thus formed the CSIR (Corpo di Spedizione in Russia – Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia). The Italians were unprepared for the brutal Russian weather as well as for the overwhelming Soviet superiority in men and equipment that they had to face. Nevertheless, the Italians fought well, especially the troops of the Italian alpine corps, but ultimately were defeated.

Harold Gillies, The Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery Andrew Bamji

$55 • Paperback • 240 pages • 6.75x9.75 61 color ills, 232 b/w ills, 2 tables • March 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-511302-3

Faces from the Front examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not necessarily lead to death due to developments in anesthesia and improvements in the treatment Drawing on a unique collection of personal and family accounts of the post-war lives of patients treated at Sidcup, the author explores surgical and aesthetic outcomes and the emotional impact of facial reconstruction.

119 Infantry Brigade and Brigadier-General Frank Percy Crozier in the Great War Michael Anthony Taylor

$55 • Paperback • 292 pages • 6.75x9.75 30 b/w photos, 6 maps, 23 tables • April 2022 HIS027090 • 978-1-91-507084-5

On 20 November 1916 the newly promoted Brigadier-General Frank Percy Crozier took command of 119 Brigade, one of three infantry brigades that made up the 40th Division, once labeled “the forgotten Fortieth”. This book brings the history and achievements of the brigade to a wider audience and adds to the story of the controversial Frank Crozier.

An Intelligence Officer’s Battle Behind Enemy Lines in Wartime Burma Serena Merton

$29.95 • Paperback • 122 pages • 6.1x9.2 35 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w maps Currently Available • BIO008000 978-1-91-437741-9

Born in Canada in 1905, Cecil Gerald Merton studied forestry at Cambridge before starting work as an Assistant Forestry Manager in 1930. He spent the next decade living in the jungles of Burma with his wife and two small daughters. War came to his corner of South East Asia in early 1942; he joined the 2 Burma Rifles and walked out of Burma in the Retreat to India. Awarded the MC and bar for his bravery, he survived the war to be reunited with his wife and children.