Publishing Highlights & News

News week beginning 6th September 2010
Full details and cover images of all titles can be found under the various links under the heading Published or distributed by Helion.

HELION TITLES
We have now added details of all of our July-December 2010 schedule to our 'New & Forthcoming Titles' section. We have a fantastic array of titles, covering C19th Europe, the two World Wars and modern conflicts, not to mention some superb aviation titles. Some highlights include:
* Brief Freedom: The Army of Hungary during the Uprising of 1848-49, latest in our series of limited edition signed and numbered C19th studies
* None That Go Return... tells the story of Vera Brittain's brother, Edward, and friends - part of the 'lost generation' of WWI
* Fall of the Red Baron, a penetrating new account of Richthofen's death and WWI aerial tactics fully-researched from new sources by Leon Bennett, an acknowledged expert on the subject
* Barbarossa Derailed Volume 2, the second of four volumes David Glantz has written about the epic 1941 Battle of Smolensk, and in the process, rewriting the history of the Eastern Front in 1941 and beyond
* Magyar Warriors Volume 1: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945 including hundreds of previously unpublished photographs
* Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk July 1943 written by a former member of staff at the former Prokhorovka battlefield park museum - groundbreaking!
* The Oder Front 1945, A. Stephan Hamilton's new and very comprehensive study of Army Group Vistula 1945
...besides many other fascinating and important titles.

Our latest titles, now in stock, are:
The Campaign in Alsace, August 1870 by Brigadier J.P. Du Cane - good detail on the battles of Weissenburg and Woerth.
The Danish Campaign of 1864 by Wilhelm Gründorf - a fascinating memoir by an Austrian staff officer.
The Campaign of the Army of the North 1870-71 by Louis Faidherbe - including many interesting appendices.
Plus a paperback reprint of Military Operations of the Dutch Army 1940 by P.L.G. Doorman.

Some recently published titles:
A Rendezvous with the Enemy. My brother's life and death with the Coldstream Guards in Northern Ireland by Darren Ware - moving and gripping, by turns.
A Military Government in Exile. The Polish Government in Exile 1939-45, a study of discontent by Evan McGilvray. Includes much on the pre-war Polish Army.
The Organization of the German State Forces in 1866 by Stuart Sutherland - data and structure for even the smallest states.
With Tegetthoff at Lissa. The memoirs of an Austrian Naval Officer 1861-66 by Maximilian Rottauscher - lively, fascinating and including a superb personal account of the Battle of Lissa.
and a paperback reprint of Panzer Lehr Division 1944-45 edited by Dr Frederick P. Steinhardt.

Our next book to be published will be:
Secrets of the Cold War: US Army Europe's Intelligence & Counterintelligence activities against the Soviets during the Cold War by Leland C. McCaslin - a fascinating read that lifts the lid on all manner of activities within the intelligence and espionage world.
We expect to have this available by around 3 September.

EAGLE EDITIONS TITLES
The long-awaited Ta 152 title is now in-stock! There is a signed deluxe edition, as usual - and we expect to sell this version out quickly.

REID AIR PUBLISHING TITLES
The latest title, The Scale Viper. A Modeller's Guide to Building the F-16 is now in-stock and available. We have also posted details of the next title due from Reid Air, this summer - The Modern Superhornet Guide. The F-18E/F/EA-18G Exposed.