Europe@War

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The Europe@War series examines conflict in Europe from the early twentieth century up to the present day beyond the scope of the two world wars.

Upon first examination, other than the world wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45, Europe in the twentieth century and up until the present day has been a place of relative calm, prosperity and one where disputes have been resolved in a civilised fashion. Europe was seen to have enjoyed an unprecedent period of peace from the end of the Second World War up until early 2022.

The reality is quite different. In the wake of the Great War many fragments of the former Habsburg and Ottoman empires fought to forge their unique identities. Spain would descend into violent chaos in the 1930s. As the post-Second World War arrangements faltered there were numerous crises, local uprisings, clandestine operations and major incidents. Coups changed governments and often set the alignment of states, and the fate of people, for the decades that would follow.

The Cold War – a unique showdown between the United States and its allies in the West, and the Soviet Union and its allies in the East, with central Europe as one of its primary potential battlegrounds – dominated military thinking and drove military developments for decades and made Europe one of the most densely militarised places on Earth. Berlin would be held hostage and lives were lost crossing, patrolling, or eavesdropping across the borders between the major power blocks from the Arctic to the edges of the Middle East. Terrorists would fight for their own causes or as proxies for others in the streets of Europe’s major cities.

Almost before the Cold War had ended Yugoslavia erupted into internecine warfare along the lines of long-standing divisions and resulting in a return to ethnic cleansing and genocide though to have been consigned to history half a century earlier. The legacy of the Cold War has left a Europe as thoroughly divided as ever it was by the Iron Curtain, as Russia seeks to dominate the former Soviet Republics and violently oppose any of them seeking to join NATO, and ruthlessly suppressing internal dissent and rebellion within its own borders.

The Europe@War series seeks to examine conflict within Europe, primarily outside the period of the two world wars, looking at events that are often overlooked in the anglophone world or have been shrouded in secrecy. Following the established pattern of the various @War series, Europe@War looks to use authors with firsthand experience of the events described or with access to local archives and source materials not often used elsewhere in the field of military history.

The series emphases in-depth studies of conflicts in Europe, providing geographic and socioeconomic background to these conflicts as well as detail of the military organisations, their equipment, capabilities and intentions, strategy and tactics, and combat operations. Each volume is richly illustrated with original photographs, maps of the relevant geographic areas and specific combat operations, and specially commissioned colour artworks showing the combatants, vehicles, aircraft and other equipment used in Europe. The Europe@War series thus provides unique in-depth insight and is an indispensable source of reference for the military events in Europe from the earliest days of the twentieth century up to the present.

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.

Air Battles over Hungary 1944-45 Volume 2 : Capturing the Capital
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Air Battles over Hungary 1944-45 Volume 2

Capturing the Capital
Europe@War #71

Dmitriy Khazanov

72 pages 153 b/w photos, 23 colour profiles, 3 b/w maps, 5 tables

Not yet published - in Spring 2026 list

Air Battles over Hungary 1944-45 Volume 1 : From Summer Skies to Autumn Firestorms
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Air Battles over Hungary 1944-45 Volume 1

From Summer Skies to Autumn Firestorms
Europe@War #70

Dmitriy Khazanov

72 pages 125 b/w photos, 25 colour profiles, 3 b/w maps, 6 tables

Not yet published - in Spring 2026 list

War in Ukraine Volume 12 : The Battle of Kharkiv and the Slobozhanska Counteroffensive, February-December 2022
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War in Ukraine Volume 12

The Battle of Kharkiv and the Slobozhanska Counteroffensive, February-December 2022
Europe@War #69

Andrij Kharkuk, Daryna Kharkuk

84 pages 50 colour photos, 30 colour profiles, 8 colour maps, 1 b/w map

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Europe@War

Contacts

Submissions

Air Battles over Hungary 1944-45 Volume 2

Air Battles over Hungary 1944-45 Volume 1

War in Ukraine Volume 12

Spanish Army Aviation 1965-2023

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 4

Skywatch Volume 2

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 3

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 2

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 Volume 1

Baptism of Fire

The Spanish Civil War in the Air Volume 2

Skywatch Volume 1

Airmen of Chernobyl

The Spanish Civil War in the Air Volume 1

Whiskey on the Rocks Volume 2

War in Ukraine Volume 11

War in Ukraine Volume 10

The Bosnian Serb Army at War 1992-95

Whiskey on the Rocks Volume 1

War in Ukraine Volume 9

Curtiss Kittyhawks in the Soviet Far North 1941-45 Volume 2

War in Ukraine Volume 8

Curtiss Kittyhawks in the Soviet Far North 1941-45 Volume 1

The Yugoslav Air Force Volume 2

We Were Never There Volume 3

The Modern British Army Volume 2

Wagner Group Private Military Company Volume 2

The Modern British Army Volume 1

War in Ukraine Volume 7

Wagner Group Private Military Company Volume 1

Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 4

War in Ukraine Volume 6

Carnation Revolution Volume 2

Tailships

Carnation Revolution Volume 1

War in Ukraine Volume 5

War in Ukraine Volume 4

Ripped Apart Volume 1

War in Ukraine Volume 3

A Sword for Peace and Liberty Volume 1

Battle for Grozny Volume 1

Danger Zone

Chasing the Soft Underbelly

War in Ukraine Volume 2

Cold War Berlin: an Island City Volume 3

Defending Rodinu Volume 2

Ejercito del Aire Y Del Espacio

Cominform Crisis

Fangs of the Lone Wolf (Revised edition)

From Julietts to Yasens

War in Ukraine Volume 1

Defending Rodinu Volume 1

The Hunt for the Storozhevoy

Operation Allied Force Volume 2

We Were Never There Volume 2

Never Ready

Brigate Rosse

We Were Never There Volume 1

Cold War Berlin: an Island City Volume 2

Operation Allied Force Volume 1

Tsar Bomba

Cold War Berlin: an Island City Volume 1

Operation Deliberate Force

Operation Danube

Silver Birds over the Estuary

The Yugoslav Air Force Volume 1

Tito's Underground Air Base

Hunt for the U-2

Hot Skies of the Cold War

The Trieste Crisis 1953

A Sword for Peace and Liberty Volume 2

Armenian-Azerbaijan War Volume 1

Battle for Grozny Volume 2

In the Skies over Kerch & Feodosia, Crimean Air War 1943-44 Volume 1

In the Skies over Kerch & Feodosia, Crimean Air War 1943-44 Volume 2

In the Skies over Kerch & Feodosia, Crimean Air War 1943-44 Volume 3

Italian Decima MAS 1943-45 Volume 1