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Asia @ War: When Brothers Fight Chinese Eyewitness Accounts of the Sino-Soviet Border Battles, 1969

Asia @ War: Wings over the Hindu Kush: Air Forces, Aircraft and Air Warfare of Afghanistan, 1989-2001

This is the story of nine diverse air forces, their aircraft, and air warfare over Afghanistan in the period between the Soviet withdrawal of 1989, and the US-led Western intervention in 2001. Afghanistan is widely considered one of the World’s most...

Europe @ War: A SWORD FOR PEACE AND LIBERTY VOLUME 1 Force de frappe - The French Nuclear Strike Force and the First Cold War 1945-1990

This book reconstructs the solid continuity of the nuclear strategy of the Republic of France, one of five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations. Over the last 60 years France has developed its own indigenous nuclear capability,...

Europe @ War: Battle for Grozny: Volume 1 - Prelude and the Way to the City, 1994

Based on numerous little known publications and veteran accounts from both sides, extensive pictorial and video footage, and focuses upon the reconstruction of events that happened prior to and during the New Year of 19941995.After a declaration of...

Europe @ War: Carnation Revolution Volume 2: Coup in Portugal, April 1974

A detailed account of the intertwining political and military events of March and April 1974 in and around Lisbon. In March 1974, a climate of conspiracy reigned in Portugal. Premier Marcello Caetano, insisted on the continuation of the Portuguese...

Europe @ War: CHASING THE SOFT UNDERBELLY Turkey and the Second World War

Chasing the Soft Underbelly examines the role of Turkey during the Second World War. While it was non-belligerent until February 1945, there were many attempts to push it into the conflict. Studies of the Second World War traditionally begin with the...

Europe @ War: Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3: US Forces in Berlin - Keeping the Peace, 1945-1994

At the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies split Germany into three zones of occupation, and Berlin into four sectors, one each for the British, Americans, French and Soviets. It did not take long for the wartime alliances to crumble into...

Europe @ War: Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 4 US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994

Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3, US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994 examines how the American Berlin Brigade prepared for war: the units that made up the brigade, how it trained, how it was equipped, how it planned to defend the...

Europe @ War: Cominform Crisis: Soviet-Yugoslav Stand-Off, 1948-1954

Cominform Crisis describes the first armed conflict within the Communist world after the Second World War. This occurred between Tito’s Yugoslavia and the states led by the Soviet Union, in the period between 1948 and 1954. It starts with an explanation...

Europe @ War: DANGER ZONE US Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945-1990

Divided in two for decades between the late 1940s and early 1990s, Germany was the hottest ‘battlefield’ of the Cold War. Its western part was dotted by dozens of major military facilities of the reconstituted national armed forces and those of the NATO...

Europe @ War: Defending Rodinu: Volume 2 - Development and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1961-1991

In the 1950s, the Soviets had managed to grow a major Air Defence Force (PVO) capable of covering the entire airspace of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The PVO was able to field interceptors and surface-to-air missiles to intercept...

Europe @ War: Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009

Books on guerrilla war are seldom written from the tactical perspective and even more 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...

Europe @ War: FROM JULIETTS TO YASENS Development and Operational History of Soviet Nuclear-Powered Cruise-Missile Submarines 1958-2022

 the aftermath of the Second World War, the Soviet Union embarked upon the rebuilding of its naval forces for a new era of naval warfare; one dominated by Western nuclear-armed aircraft carriers that posed an existential threat to the USSR.   One...

Europe @ War: Hot Skies of the Cold War: The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s

After the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agreement on the 'spheres of influence' division of Europe. The Bulgarian Air Force was radically reformed in the Soviet...

Europe @ War: Hunt for the U-2 Interceptions of Lockheed U-2 Reconnaissance Aircraft over the USSR, Cuba and People’s Republic of China, 1959-1968

The Lockheed U-2 is probably the best known spy-aircraft ever, famous for the exploits of its pilots over or near hostile territories. Indeed, the bold and provocative operations flown by the CIA-operated Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over the...

Europe @ War: OPERATION ALLIED FORCE VOLUME 1 Air War over Serbia 1999

On 24 March 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) launched Operation Allied Force against Serbia. Lasting 78 days, this was an unusual conflict fought at several levels. The campaign was fought at the negotiation tables, in the media, and...

Europe @ War: Operation Danube: Soviet and Warsaw Pact Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968

On 20 August 1968, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, dozens of thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, and hundreds of military aircraft of the Warsaw Pact armed forces invaded Czechoslovakia in an operation code-named Danube. It was the largest...

Europe @ War: Operation Deliberate Force Air War over Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995

During the early 1990s, a series of savage wars was fought in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Jugoslavia (SFRJ). The third of the conflicts in question, the war in Bosnia, was in its third year as of 1995. Already internationalized by multiple...

Europe @ War: Ripped Apart: Volume 1 — The Cyprus Crisis 1963-64

An even-handed and richly illustrated account of the military history of Cyprus between independence from Britain and the events of 1964.The Cyprus Problem also known as the Cyprus dispute, Cyprus issue, Cyprus question or Cyprus conflict is an ongoing...

Europe @ War: Tailships: The Hunt for Soviet Submarines in the Mediterranean, 1970-1973

"Both from the analytic description of the scientific background to that of the author’s firsthand human experience, to the historical development of the technology, to the political and strategic context of the time, this book contains a LOT – including...

Europe @ War: The Modern British Army The Path to Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond

The Modern British Army: The Path to Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond details the Army’s efforts to match ongoing reductions in strength with the organisation and equipment to meet the country’s defence challenges in today’s world. Emphasis is on the...

Europe @ War: The Yugoslav Air Force in the Battles for Slovenia Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina 1991-1992: Volume 1 - JRViPVO in Yugoslav War, 1991-1992

During the late 1980s, the former Socialist Federal Republic of Jugoslavia (SFRJ) – a country dominating the Balkans – experienced a period of major crisis. Led by the Communist Party, the nation’s leadership failed to understand the depth of political...

Europe @ War: Tsar Bomba Live Testing of Soviet Nuclear Bombs, 1949-1962

On 30 October 1961, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR/Soviet Union) conducted a live test of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Codenamed ‘Ivan’, and known in the West as the ‘Tsar Bomba’, the RDS-202 hydrogen bomb was detonated...

Europe @ War: Wagner Group Volume 1 Private Military Company: Establishment, Profile and Operations 2013-2023

The Wagner Group is symbolic of Russia’s deployment of private military companies (PMCs) to exercise influence in Africa, the Middle East and Europe since the mid-2010s. Nominally an independent commercial enterprise, but actually operating on behalf of...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine Volume 4: Main Battle Tanks of Russia and Ukraine, 2014-2023 — Soviet Legacy and Post-Soviet Russian MBTs

“The War in Ukraine series continues to be an excellent source of information on events from 2014 leading up to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.” — AMPS The two largest heirs to the massive Soviet tank force that faced NATO during the...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine Volume 5: Main Battle Tanks of Russia and Ukraine, 2014-2023 — Post-Soviet Ukrainian MBTs and Combat Experience

Examines the development of Soviet legacy MBTs by Ukraine in the post-Soviet era into models including the Bulat and Oplot, and the refurbishment and modernization of T-64, T-72 and T-80 models. The two largest heirs to the massive Soviet tank force that...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine Volume 6 Air War, February-December 2022

On 24 February 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation initiated an invasion of Ukraine. Thus began the biggest and longest air war fought in Europe since 1945, and a conflict that saw the deployment of full spectrum of the Russian air power:...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine Volume 7 Air War, January-December 2023

Volume 7 of War in Ukraine provides a detailed account of the air war as it developed during 2023, a period in which Russia made extensive use of Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers and their missiles to bring about the collapse of the power supply system in Ukraine...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine: Volume 1: Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic, 2014-2022

"These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the war and, especially, who has been fighting it, then...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine: Volume 2: Russian Invasion, February 2022

Helion continues its excellent record on relevant and concise reference material on current events and military operations. AMPSOn 24 February 2022, eight years after invading the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine and organizing an illegal referendum in...

Europe @ War: War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic 2014–2022

Presents a wealth of unique visual material including unit patches, photographs, and diagrams and maps that depict Luhansk Peoples Republic military forces.War in Ukraine, Volume 3 Armed formations of the Luhansk Peoples Republic 20142022 focuses on the...

Europe @ War: We Were Never There - Volume 1: CIA U-2 Operations over Europe, USSR, and the Middle East, 1956-1960

Devised by Kelly Johnson and initially operated by the CIA, 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. Operating from remote...

Latin America @ War: Aerial Operations in the Revolutions of 1922 and 1947 in Paraguay: The First Dogfights in South America

In the first half of the 20th Century, there were several revolutions in Paraguay, starting in 1904, then 1908, 1911-12, 1922-23, 1936 and finally 1947. In 1922, a huge internal crisis in the Liberal Party led to a bloody revolution and for the first...

Latin America @ War: Air Wars between Ecuador and Peru: Volume 2 - Falso Paquisha! Aerial Operations over the Condor Mountain Range, 1981

Based on diverse interpretations of the Real Ceduls (Royal Proclamations) by the Spanish monarchs of earlier centuries, the almost 200-year-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru became one of the longest-running international armed conflicts in the...

Latin America @ War: Air Wars Between Ecuador and Peru: Volume 3 - Aerial Operations over the Condor Mountain Range, 1995

The series of sharp clashes between Ecuador and Peru of 1981 left the dispute between the two countries unresolved as there was still no definitive delimitation of the border. During the following years, both parties had to deal with a series of internal...

Latin America @ War: All for One, One for All: Argentine Navy Operations during the Falklands/Malvinas War

All for One, One for All provides a contemporary perspective of the baptism of fire of one of the oldest, most resourceful and well-trained war fighting institutions in Latin America: the Argentine Navy. It offers a rare insight into the relationship...

Latin America @ War: Araguaia War Counterinsurgency against the Communist Guerrillas of Brazil, 1964-1985

In 1964 a right-wing military coup seized power in Brazil. The Araguaia Guerrilla movement, formed by the Communist Party of Brazil in the late 1960s, launched an armed opposition to the US-backed military government with the intention of waging a...

Latin America @ War: Azules y Colorados: Armed Confrontations in the Argentine Armed Forces, 1962–63

Richly illustrated with authentic photography and custom-drawn color profiles and maps, this book is an indispensable source of reference about one of the crucial moments in Argentine history.Azules y Colorados is the name originally used to designate...

Latin America @ War: Brazilians at War: Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America - despite being initially neutral - became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis submarines - leading to the urgent development of an...

Latin America @ War: Che Guevara's Final Adventure The Guerilla in Bolivia, 1967

Che’s Final Adventure: The Guerrillia in Bolivia, 1967 is a detailed military history of the final campaign of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, as he commanded the Bolivian National Liberation Army in a doomed campaign against the US-backed military regime headed...