Helion 2012 (22 résultats)

paperback. Etat : Very Good. 30 South / Helion & Co., c.2012, 1st.trade paperbk.prtg., 183pp., photos., NF $.

1st edition. 8vo. 399pp. + adverts. Original boards. Pictorial red d/w. lettered in cream and white. Very good. ISBN 9781907677724 US$7.

1st edition. 8vo. 399pp. + adverts. Original boards. Pictorial red d/w. lettered in cream and white. Very good. ISBN 9781907677724 US$7.

Paperback. Etat : New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

New edition. 8vo. 140pp. + adverts. B/w. illustrations. Paperback in original pictorial red wrapps. with white lettering to spine. Very good. ISBN 9781907677304 US$10.

1st edition. 8vo. 399pp. + adverts. B/w. illustrations, maps. Original boards. Pictorial red d/w. lettered in cream. D/w. neatly reinforced on verso to head and tail of spine. ISBN 9781907677724 US$12.

233 x 155 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 159 + (i); photographs. Fine condition. "During that long, hot summer of 1964, Ivan Smith, a mercenary volunteer in the Armée Nationale Congolais, came to witness and understand fear, the law of the jungle and the lust for killing that permeates Africa. A member of 'Mad Mike' Hoare's 5 Commando Group, he and his companions were nominally soldiers but there was little in the way of campaigns, tactics or discipline. Of conventional warfare there was none. Loyalty to country or unit did not exist; the fear of death was the only commander. Many more mercenaries died from accidental discharge, in a drunken shoot-out or from a bullet in the back than were ever killed in action by Simba rebels. Half a century later, Ivan Smith re-lives the nightmare that was the Congo.".…

183+1 pages, bibliography, maps, illustrations : eye-witness account by SADF Signals Officer of the bush war in southern Angola in the 1980s; paperback FINE isbn 9781907677779 south africa african military 32 battalion angola angolan war sadf.

Quarto softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'The famous poem by Rudyard Kipling is based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the doomed raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen carried out against Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic in 1896. In this engaging biography . Ash recounts the life of this colonial statesman known as 'Dr Jim' or simply 'The Doctor'. He was an enigmatic man: when he died The Times estimated that his astonishing personal sway over his followers was equalled only by that of Parnell, the Irish patriot. During the fervour of the South African diamond rush Jameson established a small medical practice in Kimberley in 1878; it was here that he met and forged a lifelong friendship with Cecil John Rhodes. Jameson's thirst for adventure, coupled with Rhodes's dream of expanding the British Empire from the Cape to Cairo, led - under Royal Charter to the British South Africa Company - to the occupation of Mashonaland in 1890, with Jameson having laid the groundwork in his political dealings with Lobengula, king of the Matabele. And so began Jameson's rollercoaster adventure: from Administrator of Mashonaland, to the 'invasion' of Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), the Matabele War and the infamous 'Jameson Raid' and his subsequent trial and incarceration in London. Despite the raid, Jameson had a successful political life. He died on 26 November 1917 in London. His body was laid in a vault at Kensal Green cemetery where it remained until the end of the First World War. Ian Colvin wrote in 1923 that Jameson's body was then 'carried to Rhodesia and on the 22nd of May, 1920, laid in a grave cut in the granite on the top of the mountain which Rhodes had called 'The View of the World' (in the Matopos Hills near Bulawayo), close beside the grave of his friend.''--Back cover.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Originally published by Greenwood Press, 1997.

168 pages, photographs (a few in colour) : personal account of flying helicopters in South Africa's border war in South West Africa/Angola; paperback MINT isbn 9781908916594 south africa sadf africa's border war south west africa angola angolan war saaf.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow. Between 22 June and 10 July, the Wehrmacht advanced up to 500km into Soviet territory, killed or captured up to one million Red Army soldiers, and reached the western banks of the Western Dvina and Dnepr Rivers. In doing so, they satisfied the premier assumption of Plan Barbarossa that the Third Reich would emerge victorious if it could defeat and destroy the bulk of the Red Army before it withdrew to safety behind those two rivers. With the Red Army now believed shattered, Hitler and most Germans expected total victory in a matter of weeks. The ensuing battles in the Smolensk region frustrated German hopes for quick victory. This groundbreaking new study exploits a wealth of Soviet and German archival materials, including the combat orders and operational practises of the German OKW, OKH, army groups, and armies of the Soviet Stavka, the Red Army General Staff, the Western Main Direction Command, the Western, Central, Reserve, and Briansk Fronts, and their subordinate armies to present a detailed mosaic and definitive account of what took place, why and how during the prolonged and complex battles in the Smolensk region from 10 July - 10 September 1941. Within the context of Guderian's southward march toward the Kiev region, volume 2 in this series describes in unprecedented detail the Red Army's attempts to thwart German offensive plans by defeating Army Group Centre with a general counteroffensive by three Red Army fronts. This volume restores to the pages of history two major military operations which, for political and military reasons, Soviet historians concealed from view, largely because both offensives failed. Based on the analysis of the vast mass of documentary materials exploited by this study, David Glantz presents a number of important new findings. Quite simply, this series breaks new ground in World War II Eastern Front and Soviet military studies.…

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 358pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, An Oral & Historical analysis of the Troubles during the bloody 1970s. Powerful account.

1st edition dust jacket New Book octavo 358pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, An Oral & Historical analysis of the Troubles during the bloody 1970s. Powerful account.

1st edition dust jacket As New small folio viii + 189pp., colour & b/w plates, appends., bibliog., index, 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun's birth. The convent-educated Catholic girl married Adolf Hitler only 36 hours before their joint suicides in Berlin on April 30 1945. This is the story of her life, with illustrations from her own personal photograph albums, as well as from other captured German archives.…

1st edition dust jacket New Book octavo viii + 189pp., col. & b/w pls., appends., bibliog., index, 'The character, skills & endurance obtained, set these adventurers and explorers apart as men who were to play a distinguished & heroic role in WW2. Expertise in Arctic conditions, small boat handling, exploring in all climatic conditions resulted in their participation in all aspects of warfare, particularly as exponents of special operations & as key members of Britain's first special forces. Their war service took them from the fjords of Norway and Spitsbergen to the jungles of Burma and Malaya and the beaches of Normandy and Italy'. …

1st edition dust jacket New Book small folio viii + 189pp., colour & b/w plates, appends., bibliog., index, 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun s birth. The convent-educated Catholic girl married Adolf Hitler only 36 hours before their joint suicides in Berlin on April 30 1945. This is the story of her life, with illustrations from her own personal photograph albums, as well as from other captured German archives.…

1st edition dust jacket Very Nice Copy octavo 287pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, index, Resulted in enormous numbers of casualties who had sustained filthy contaminated wounds from high explosive shellfire, bomb & mortar blast, & from rifle and machine gun bullet. Such wounds were frequently multiple, severe, & almost invariably became infected. Surgical experience from previous conflicts was of little value, it became quickly apparent that early surgical intervention with radical removal of all dead and devitalised tissue was absolutely vital to help reduce the chances of infections, especially the lethal gas gangrene, from developing. Book explains how medical services responded to deal with the casualties.…

reprint dust jacket As New 8vo. 655pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps & plans, appends., bibliog., index, The German The German Advance to Smolensk, the Encirclement Battle, and the First & Second Soviet Counter Offensives 10 July-24 August 1941.

1st edition dust jacket As New 8vo. 620pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive 25 August-10 December 1941.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy 8vo. 319pp., b/w plates, index, On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known to Soviet historians as the Zhitomir-Berdichev operation. Based on the unpublished records of the German 1st and 4th Panzer Armies, and supplemented by comprehensive mapping and order of battle data, this book provides an authoritative, detailed, day-by-day account of German operations as they developed in response to the Soviet offensive. Inc. a 151pp. Map Book.…