For sale in CIS only! "Warrior Geeks" examines how technology is transforming the way we think about and fight war, taking three major changes that are driving this process: cybernetic technologies that are folding soldiers into a cybernetic system...

"The World Defence Almanac" is the most up-to-date study of defence forces in the world. As a reference, it provides a comprehensive review of force structures, organisation and inventories. Divided up by separate countries, each entry gives a wealt...

Never before have actual battle uniforms, individual equipment and weapons of the infantrymen of the great war been illustrated in such authentic detail. Original surviving items, painstakingly assembled from rare private and public collections, are...

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on key resources – oil, diamonds, and timber – he argues that resources and wars are linked in three main ways. First, resource revenues finance belligerents, a trend that has become all the more conspicuous since the...

The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished hi...

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U. S. military – a concept that eventually led to the c...

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars – from Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figures – military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment...

For sale in CIS only! After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a reporter and analyst c...