The Road To Königgrätz: Helmuth von Moltke and the Austro-Prussian War 1866
Quintin Barry
ISBN 9781909384743
Striking Inside Angola with 32 Battalion
Marius Scheepers
ISBN 9781909384699
‘Young Citizen, Old Soldier’
From boyhood in Antrim to Hell on the Somme
The Journal of Rifleman James McRoberts, No.1885, 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (YCV) January 1915-April 1917
Edited by David Truesdale
ISBN 9781909384682
The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War: A Re-Examination (Helion Studies in Military History no 14)
Boris Sokolov
Edited by Stuart Britton
ISBN 9781909384712
SAAF’s Border War: The South African Air Force in Combat, 1966–1989 (Africa @ War Volume 8)
Peter Baxter
ISBN 9781909384729
Tumult in the Clouds: Stories from the South African Air Force 1920–2010
Dean Wingrin
ISBN 9781909384750
Chicken Street. Afghanistan before the Taliban: Clearing the Deadly Remnants of War
John Lane
ISBN 9781909384767
Radetzky’s Marches: The Campaigns of 1848 and 1849 in Upper Italy
Michael Embree
ISBN 9781909384736
With the Red Devils at Arnhem: Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944 (Translated from the Polish by H.C. Stevens. Additional material and footnotes added by Niall Cherry)
Marek Święcicki
ISBN 9781909384705
Anecdotes of the Anglo-Boer War: Tales from the ‘Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars’ (Revised and Updated Second Edition)
Rob Milne
ISBN 9781909384811
The Battle of Wörth: August 6th, 1870 (New introduction by Duncan Rogers)
Lieut.-Col. G.F.R. Henderson
The York and Lancaster Regiment
Professor of Military History, The Staff College
ISBN 9781909384842
Blue and Old Gold: The History of the British South Africa Police 1889–1980 (Illustrated by Richard Hamley)
Peter Gibbs, Hugh Phillips and Nick Russell
ISBN 9781909384873
The Cheetah: The Rhodesian Light Infantry 50th Anniversary Edition
Chris Cocks, editor
ISBN 9781909384910
Dingo Firestorm: The Greatest Battle of the Rhodesian Bush War
Ian Pringle
ISBN 9781909384781
From Addis to the Aosta Valley: A South African in the North African and Italian Campaigns 1940–1945
Keith Ford
ISBN 9781909384828
Masodja: The history of the Rhodesian African Rifles and its forerunner the Rhodesian Native Regiment
Commissioned and compiled by Brigadier David Heppenstall and the Rhodesian African Rifles Regimental Association (UK)
Alexandre Binda
ISBN 9781909384897
Man of Steel and Honour: General Stanisław Maczek. Soldier of Poland, Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division in North-West Europe 1944-45
(Helion Studies in Military History Number 18)
Evan McGilvray
ISBN 9781909384798
“Recce”: A Collector’s Guide to the History of the South African Special Forces
P. Matthysen, M. Kalkwarf and M. Huxtable
ISBN 9781909384880
The Great Trek Uncut. Escape from British Rule: The Boer Exodus from the Cape Colony 1836
Robin Binckes
ISBN 9781909384804
The Saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry
Alexandre Binda
compiled and edited by Chris Cocks
ISBN 9781909384903
Three Weeks in November: A Military History of the Swiss Civil War of 1847
Ralph Weaver
ISBN 9781909384835
Troepie Snapshots: Pictorial Recollections of the South African Border War
Cameron Blake
ISBN 9781909384866
Tunisian Tales: The 1st Parachute Brigade in North Africa 1942-43
Niall Cherry
ISBN 9781909384859
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Cover photo: A Buccaneer with an H2 bomb on the inner pylon and an EW pod on the outer pylon under the port wing. The H2 communications pod is under the starboard wing.