Africa@War

8th April: Africa@War Series eBook launch today!

As requested by many of you, we’ve launched the first 6 Africa@War Series titles in ebook format today:

The Flechas
Great Lakes Holocaust
Great Lakes Conflagration
Wings over Ogaden
Rhodesian Fire Force
Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda

These digital releases are available exclusively from the Helion website.

More releases in this series and in the other @War series will follow over the next few months. Keep your eye on emails (sign up here) and the website for more information.

Each of these is available in PDF format as this is most appropriate for the style of all Helion @War series titles, with their large number of quite sizeable graphical images (photos, maps, profile images, diagrams, etc.) throughout the text.

PDFs can be read on most devices such as PC, tablet, phone, & ereaders like the Amazon Kindle. PDF Readers such as Adobe Acrobat DC are widely available for free.

There’s a special launch offer price of only £8.49 each (RRP £9.99) until Sunday 18th April, so start your digital @War collection today.

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The 'Africa@War' series covers African military history since 1945.

Public perception of the military history of modern-day warfare in Africa is full of prejudices. Most widespread between these are urban legends about hopelessly unprofessional regular militaries that can neither maintain their equipment, nor operate in conventional fashion. Other accounts are emphasising deployment of de-facto rag-tag militias of blood-thirsty and barbarian child soldiers, of no use for anything else but randomly terrorising the local population. Relatively few Western observers are able of pointing out one or another African military as an effective fighting force.

The reality is strikingly different. Over the last 70 years, numerous African nations have developed highly professional and combat-effective militaries that distinguished themselves in conventional and non-conventional combat operations. However, military history of most of conflicts in question remains one of most badly under-studied topics in our days.

The Africa@War series is the first concentrated effort ever to change this. It is emphasising in-depth studies of conflicts on this continent. It is providing not only geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds – i.e. ‘the coming-into being’ of the conflicts in question – but foremost focusing on involved military organizations, their equipment, capabilities and intentions, strategy and tactics, and combat operations. Each volume is richly illustrated by original photographs, maps of relevant geographic areas and specific combat operations, and detailed colour profiles of heavy equipment deployed by all of involved parties.

The Africa@War series is thus providing a unique, in-depth insight, and indispensable source of reference into all of major wars, and most of major campaigns fought on the African continent over the last 70 years.

“Africa@War is a ground-breaking series concept, studying Africa’s conflicts and military players in an informative and entertaining manner, examining some of the lesser-known campaigns and shedding new light on some of the better-known operations … great models of what the combination of authors and publishers can produce by way of useable case studies for the market place in a concise illustrated format. They are recommended as professional military education references.” Charles D. Melson, Chief Historian, U.S. Marine Corps

"Each of the books in this series is a well-documented and researched synopsis of the events that they are focused upon. The layouts and presentation are logical and of a very high quality ... As an introduction to this field of operation, this series is outstanding. A definite asset for those wishing to improve their knowledge and understanding of the development of successful, multi-faceted doctrine in the fight against insurgent/assymetric war." Major Chris Buckham, Royal Canadian Air Force Journal

Contacts

Series Editor : Tom Cooper

Series Editor : Andy Miles

Submissions

The publishers would be pleased to receive submissions for this series. Please contact the series editor(s) above, or in writing to Helion & Company, Unit 8, Amherst Business Centre, Budbrooke Road, Warwick CV34 5WE.

For God and the CIA : Cuban Exile Forces in the Congo and Beyond c.1961-1967
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For God and the CIA

Cuban Exile Forces in the Congo and Beyond c.1961-1967
Africa@War #52

Stephen Rookes

88 pages 88 b/w & 6 colour photos, 2 b/w & 1 colour maps, 12 colour profiles, 7 colour figures, 5 tables

Paperback £16.95
Including FREE UK delivery

Despatched within 1-2 working days

Africa@War

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Submissions

For God and the CIA

Ripe for Rebellion

War of Intervention in Angola Volume 3

South African Armoured Vehicles

The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

The Biafran Army 1967-70

Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980

Biafra

Showdown in Western Sahara Volume 2

SAAF's Border War

Portuguese Dragoons 1966-1974

Mau Mau

Congo Unravelled

Zambezi Valley Insurgency

Selous Scouts

Battle for Cassinga

France in Centrafrique

Operation Dingo

War of Intervention In Angola Volume 2

Showdown in Western Sahara Volume 1

Operations ‘Leopard’ and ‘Red Bean’ Kolwezi 1978

War of Intervention in Angola Volume 1

Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars Volume 2

Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars Volume 1

The Paras

Portuguese Commandos

The Fuzileiros

The Rwandan Patriotic Front

Wars and Insurgencies of Uganda

Libyan Air Wars Part 3

Libyan Air Wars Part 2

Rhodesian Fire Force

Libyan Air Wars Part 1

Wings over Ogaden

Great Lakes Conflagration

Great Lakes Holocaust

The Flechas

Air Wars over Congo

Mar Verde

Rif War

Sanctuary Lost Volume 1

The CIA and British Mercenaries in Angola, 1975-1976

War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 4

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