New Helion books anounced!

[krichter33]

On Amazon.co.uk Helion has listed some new books to be released later this year:

Hitler's Fremde Heere Ost by Pahl:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hitlers-Fremde- ... 00&sr=1-10

Konev's Golgotha by Filippenkov:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Konevs-Golgotha ... 48&sr=1-11

We Will Not Go to Tuapse by Kaisergruber:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Will-Not-Go- ... 97&sr=1-16

Panzergrenadiers to the Front! by A. S. Hamilton:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panzergrenadier ... 63&sr=1-24

Totenkopf Volume 1 by Mark Yerger:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Totenkopf-Mark- ... 02&sr=1-27

[NunoKs]

Thanks for the heads up once again Krichter. My wallet on the other hand, doesn't like the news that much!

Cheers,
Nuno

[Cult Icon]

That unit history about Pzg Division Brandenburg...I will certainly get. Thanks.

[krichter33]

Yes! Hamilton is a great writer and I've been looking forward to that Brandenburg book for a while!!!

[Loïc]

Some new forthcoming books announced other than usual German topics from Rif War to unexpected Ukraine title
https://www.helion.co.uk/forthcoming-mi ... -books.php









for a British Editor the Italian Army is very far to be neglected, some authors are even our Forum fellow-members
STEEL CENTURIONS Italian Armoured Formations of the Second World War 1940-43 (Paolo Morisi)
DAMNED HUNCHBACKS' Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber Units of the Second World War 1940-1943 (Paolo Morisi)
SNOW, ICE AND SACRIFICE The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 (Massimiliano Afiero Ralph Riccio)
ITALIAN EAST AFRICA, BIRTH AND FALL OF AN EMPIRE Italian Military Operations in East Africa 1941-43 (Massimiliano Afiero Ralph Riccio)
INFANTRYMEN OF THE AIR An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943 (Jeffrey W.S.Leser)

also THE 'BLUE SQUADRONS' The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944
and FOR A GREATER REALM The Royal Thai Army at War 1940-1945 in 2 volumes
seen on Amazon but not yet in their catalogue website :
Fire in the Islands of Spice Volume 1: Air War over the Netherlands East Indies 1941-1945
etc...
https://www.helion.co.uk/forthcoming-mi ... 3ca7c603f1

[Loïc]

in Asia@War Series Spring 2023
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-histo ... 4987abcd88

The only country to escape colonialism in Southeast Asia, Thailand on the eve of the Second World War was a kingdom deep in the throes of militarism, led by a charismatic strongman obsessed with questions of national greatness and dreams of empire. In 1940 the Thais took advantage of France’s metropolitan defeat to fulfil revanchist yearnings by demanding the return of ‘lost provinces’ in Laos and Cambodia that had been ceded to Indochina half a century earlier. What followed was a border war with Vichy that culminated in Japanese mediation and the territories’ return.

Contrary to what most histories of the Pacific War would suggest, Japanese forces landing in peninsular Thailand on their way to Singapore found themselves opposed by local garrisons, one of which held out well beyond the ceasefire that Bangkok eventually ordered.

But armistice soon turned into alliance in the wake of Japanese successes of 1942, with the Thais declaring war on Britain and the United States. Driven yet again by expansionist ambitions, the Thais mounted an invasion of Burma’s eastern Shan States, coming into contact with the Chinese army. A renewed offensive in January 1943 saw Thai troops reach the borders of Yunnan. The Thai army also began an occupation of northern Malaya that same year.

A change of government in 1944 made possible by Axis setbacks in Europe and the Pacific brought to the fore a new government secretly controlled by an anti-Japanese resistance movement under whose direction the army devoted the final year of the war to preparing for an armed uprising that would ultimately never occur.

Drawing upon a wide range of hitherto untapped sources and featuring several photographs never before published, this is the first full account of Thai ground combat operations in the Second World War to be available to an international readership.

This first of two volumes covers the border war with Vichy France of 1940–41 and is accompanied by the Royal Thai Army’s orders of battle up to mid-1941, as well as a detailed overview of uniforms up until 1945. The next instalment will cover the army’s participation in what remains locally known as the Greater East Asia War alongside chapters on weaponry and unit organisations.

[Flakvierling auf Spreizlafette]

These books look very interesting! Might consider ordering one of them in the future.