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  • TAILSHIPS
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    TAILSHIPS
    JOHN RODGAARD
    Obsolete, except for the experimental anti-submarine warfare sensor they carried, the USS Hammerberg, DE-1015, the USS Courtney, DE-1021 and the USS Lester, DE-1022 went to the Mediterranean to demonstrate the potential of a technology that relied on a passive towed array detection system; what the Navy officially designated as the Interim Towed Array Surveillance System (ITASS...

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  • INTO THE ENDLESS MIST
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    INTO THE ENDLESS MIST
    MICHAL A. PIEGZIK
    At the beginning of June 1942, in the wake of the enormous Japanese struggle to bring a conclusive victory in the Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese Navy commenced Operation AL (AL Sakusen). Among the objectives of this bold plan was the 2nd Kidō Butai’s carrier-borne strike on the American military base at Dutch Harbor and seizing part of the Aleutian Archipelago in the North ...

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  • WAR IN UKRAINE
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    WAR IN UKRAINE
    WEN JIAN CHUNG
    The two largest heirs to the massive Soviet tank force that faced NATO during the Cold War – Russia and Ukraine – have been fighting one another since 2014 in what has now become the largest war in Europe since 1945. Volume 5 of the War in Ukraine series examines the development of Soviet legacy MBTs by Ukraine in the post- Soviet era into models including the Bulat and Oplot, ...

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  • SANCTUARY LOST: PORTUGAL'S AIR WAR FOR GUINEA 1961-1974
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    SANCTUARY LOST: PORTUGAL'S AIR WAR FOR GUINEA 1961-1974
    MATTHEW M HURLEY / JOSÉ MATOS
    From 1963 to 1974, Portugal and its nationalist enemies fought an increasingly intense war for the independence of "Portuguese" Guinea, then a colony but now the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. For most of the conflict Portugal enjoyed virtually unchallenged air supremacy, and increasingly based its military strategy and political pacification program on this singular advantage. The...

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  • WAR IN UKRAINE
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    WAR IN UKRAINE
    WEN JIAN CHUNG
    “The War in Ukraine series continues to be an excellent source of information on events from 2014 leading up to the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.” — AMPS The two largest heirs to the massive Soviet tank force that faced NATO during the Cold War – Russia and Ukraine – have been fighting one another since 2014 in what has now become the largest war in Europe si...

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  • WHEN BROTHERS FIGHT
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    WHEN BROTHERS FIGHT
    BENJAMIN LAI / ZHANG YIMING
    In March 1969 the two giants of the Communist world – the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – came to blows over the control of a remote and uninhabited island on their mutual border in a conflict that risked barely controlled escalation, and in which the USSR gave consideration to the use of nuclear weapons. In 2021, Helion & Company publis...

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  • CARNATION REVOLUTION
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    CARNATION REVOLUTION
    JOSÉ AUGUSTO MATOS / ZELIA OLIVEIRA
    On 25 April 1974, a movement of young captains brought down, with practically no resistance, the dictatorial regime that had been in power for over 40 years in Portugal. In the early hours of that day, a military movement unleashed a series of operations that, in less than 24 hours, defeated the forces loyal to the regime, neutralizing any possibility of reaction. Few forces re...

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  • RIPPED APART
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    RIPPED APART
    TOM COOPER / JOHN DAVID WATSON / DIMITRIS VASSILOPOULOS
    The ‘Cyprus Problem’ – also known as the Cyprus dispute, Cyprus issue, Cyprus question or Cyprus conflict – is an ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Greece and Turkey. It has bedevilled not only their relations, but also those within the European Union, NATO and the United Nations, for more than 60 years. Following a long insurgency against British coloni...

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  • KESSELSDORF 1745
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    KESSELSDORF 1745
    ALEXANDER QUERENGÄSSER
    When one thinks of the wars of the eighteenth century, one thinks of the significant clashes of great military powers: the War of the Spanish Succession and the Battles of Blenheim and Malplaquet, the Great Northern War and the Battles of Narva and Poltava, the War of the Austrian Succession and Fontenoy, the Seven Years War with Roßbach, Leuthen and Zorndorf, or the American W...

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  • JULIET TANGO NOVEMBER
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    JULIET TANGO NOVEMBER
    GUSTAVO MARÓN
    On 18 July 1981, a Canadair CL-44D Swingtail cargo aircraft of the Argentine company Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense mysteriously disappeared over the Soviet Republic of Armenia while on a flight from Iran via Turkey in the direction of Cyprus. Four days later, on 22 July 1981, the Vremya TV broadcast in Moscow forwarded a report from the Soviet TASS news agency which stated that ...

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  • THE 'BLUE SQUADRONS'
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    THE 'BLUE SQUADRONS'
    JUAN ARRÁEZ CERDÁ / EDUARDO MANUEL GIL MARTÍNEZ
    When on 22 June 1941, the news reached Spain of the attack that the Third Reich had initiated against the Soviet Union, it was received with great satisfaction, since they had just come out of a civil war in which the Soviet Union’s ‘allies’ had been defeated, putting an end to plans to impose communism on Spain with the help of the USSR. General Francisco Franco, Head of the S...

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  • THE KHOTYN CAMPAIGN OF 1621
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    THE KHOTYN CAMPAIGN OF 1621
    MICHAŁ PARADOWSKI
    In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the concluding act of a war that had started with the defeat of a Polish army at Cecora one year earlier. As such it was actually part of the longer conflict, waged over the Commonwealth...

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  • AZULES Y COLORADOS
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    AZULES Y COLORADOS
    ANTONIO LUIS SAPIENZA FRACCHIA
    ‘Azules y Colorados’ is the name originally used to designate two parties in hypothetical scenarios during an exercise. In 1962-1963, it provided the name for a series of armed confrontations between two branches of the Argentine Armed Forces. Both took place during the de facto presidency of José María Guido and aimed to settle the struggle between the top ranks of the Argenti...

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  • THE BEAGLE CONFLICT
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    THE BEAGLE CONFLICT
    ANTONIO LUIS SAPIENZA FRACCHIA
    The Beagle conflict was a territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile over the determination of the layout of the eastern mouth of the Beagle Channel, which affected the sovereignty of the islands located south of the channel, and east of Cape Horn and its adjacent maritime spaces. The first antecedents of the conflict date back to 1888, seven years after the signing of the...

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  • AIR POWER AND THE ARAB WORLD 1909-1955
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    AIR POWER AND THE ARAB WORLD 1909-1955
    DR DAVID NICOLLE / GABR ALI GABR
    Volume 9 of the Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 mini-series continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. For those Arab nations which had some degree of independence, the political, cultural and economic strains seen during the Second World War continued to have a major impact, not least upon their military...

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  • THE BATTLE OF MEGIDDO
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    THE BATTLE OF MEGIDDO
    ERIC W. OSBORNE
    The Battle of Megiddo was not only the last large cavalry offensive in world history, but also a tribute to combined arms operations fostered over the course of the First World War. Fought between 19-25 September 1918, it was the final Allied offensive of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The contending forces were the British Empire’s EEF (Egyptian Expeditionary Force) of thre...

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  • THE ARAB–ISRAELI WAR OF ATTRITION, 1967–1973
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    THE ARAB–ISRAELI WAR OF ATTRITION, 1967–1973
    BILL NORTON
    The Arab-Israeli conflict persisted through two wars and ongoing border tensions. However, the Six-Day War of June 1967 was a cataclysm. Israel emerged victorious in a war with neighboring Arab states and in possession of occupied territory. The Arabs were furious at this outcome and determined to regain their lands and dignity by again making war with Israel. Added to the mix ...

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  • CZECHOSLOVAK ARMS EXPORTS TO THE MIDDLE EAST
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    CZECHOSLOVAK ARMS EXPORTS TO THE MIDDLE EAST
    MARTIN SMISEK
    During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East – at least among the Soviet Bloc countries. The fourth volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms export from Czechoslovakia to Iran, Iraq, the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) between 1948–1989. Durin...

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  • COPPER WINGS
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    COPPER WINGS
    GUY ELLIS
    Lacking funding to purchase and operate own aircraft, the Rhodesian police established the British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing (PRAW). Equipped with private aircraft, mostly flown by owner pilots, this extended policing across a country that had few roads, reaching remote villages and farms, separated by long distances. Established in 1967, the PRAW assisted in the cap...

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  • EL SALVADOR
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    EL SALVADOR
    DAVID FRANCOIS
    A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during the 1970s resulted in widespread disturbance of daily life, political violence, repression and the outbreak of an insurgency. In March 1981, the government ran a large sweep operation along the border with Honduras in the north, accompanied by the use of scorched earth tactics and indiscriminate killing of anyone captur...

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  • COPPER WINGS
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    COPPER WINGS
    GUY ELLIS
    Lacking funding to purchase and operate own aircraft, the Rhodesian police established the British South Africa Police Reserve Air Wing (PRAW). Equipped with private aircraft, mostly flown by owner pilots, this extended policing across a country that had few roads, reaching remote villages and farms, separated by long distances. Established in 1967, the PRAW assisted in the cap...

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  • REVOLUCIÓN LIBERTADORA
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    REVOLUCIÓN LIBERTADORA
    ANTONIO LUIS SAPIENZA FRACCHIA
    Revolución Libertadora – or the Liberating Revolution – is the name by which the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina is known after overthrowing the constitutional president, Juan Domingo Perón, closing the National Congress, deposing the members of the Supreme Court, the provincial and municipal authorities and university and commissioning the entire Judicial Power thro...

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  • WAR IN UKRAINE
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    WAR IN UKRAINE
    TOM COOPER / ADRIEN FONTANELLAZ / EDWARD CROWTHER / MILOS SIPOS
    On 24 February 2022, eight years after invading the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine and organizing an illegal referendum in support of a subsequent Russian annexation, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Both Western and Russian intelligence services expected the invasion to quickly topple the democratically elected governme...

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  • FIGHTING VICHY FROM HORSEBACK
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    FIGHTING VICHY FROM HORSEBACK
    JONATHAN WASHINGTON
    This book starts with the story of a division that was never intended to fight; the British I Cavalry Division in World War Two. It was composed almost exclusively of yeomanry horsemen from Britain's Territorial Army - a force that had been ignored by Whitehall's military reforms since 1920. One of their only upgrades in the 20th century had been the upgrade from leather saber ...

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  • THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OF ATTRITION, 1967-1973
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    THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OF ATTRITION, 1967-1973
    BILL NORTON
    The Arab-Israeli conflict persisted through two wars and ongoing border tensions. However, the Six-Day War of June 1967 was a cataclysm. Israel emerged victorious in a war with neighboring Arab states and in possession of occupied territory. The Arabs were furious at this outcome and determined to regain their lands and dignity by again making war with Israel. Added to the mix ...

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  • EL SALVADOR
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    EL SALVADOR
    DAVID FRANCOIS
    A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during politicians, religious figures and activists through strikes but organized the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNL) and launched an armed insurrection against the government in early 1981. Within months, the FMLN established itself in control over two departments – which it was to guerrilla’s support base in...

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  • TROPIC THUNDER IN SURINAME
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    TROPIC THUNDER IN SURINAME
    SANDER PEETERS
    One of the three Guianas, Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking country in South America. These fertile lands were colonized by various European nations, with the Dutch capturing many plantations in what is now Suriname during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Treaty of Breda in 1667 established Dutch permanent rule in Dutch Guiana. In the following 300 years, Suriname saw the crea...

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  • THE ANGLO SAXON CONQUEST OF ENGLAND
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    THE ANGLO SAXON CONQUEST OF ENGLAND
    JIM STORR
    The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England was previously published as King Arthur’s Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England. How did Roman Britain become Anglo-Saxon England? The answer matters. This is written in English. Not Scots Gaelic, nor Latin. Before the Anglo-Saxon conquest there was no ‘English’. Anglo-Saxons gave the world the English language (the language of Shakespear...

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  • NIGHTHAWK ONE
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    NIGHTHAWK ONE
    PETER SHAW
    Flying light helicopters in Northern Ireland during the Troubles was a dangerous and demanding task. Terrorists were determined to prosecute a campaign against military aircraft operating in South Armagh and beyond, whilst roadside bombs made the security forces dependent on helicopters for surveillance and troop movements. The Westland Gazelle is one of the longest serving and...

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  • A LEGION PARA IN ALGERIA
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    A LEGION PARA IN ALGERIA
    PETER HOSKINS
    Tony Hunter-Choat had a long and distinguished career in the British Army, including as CO of 23rd SAS Regiment. This book tells the story of his formative years as a paratrooper with the elite 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1st REP) of the French Foreign Legion between 1957 and 1962 before he joined the British Army. In March 1957 the 21 years old Tony Hunter-Choat took the m...

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