This originally came into being on something like 'popular request' via Facebook - as information for those who might be interested but 'don't know, yet'...
About 8 years ago, Helion & Co Publishing has launched the first of its @War book-series: Africa@War. In 2014, we've followed with the Middle East@War and Asia@War, and since 2016 there is the Latin America@War book-series too.
Since the last year, we're releasing one new volume from one of these four series - a month. Thus, a lot has been published within a relatively short period of time; no surprise, many still do not know how much!
While we're already working on widening the scope of our coverage in the future, here just a 'brief presentation' of diverse of these series as they are right now.
Major topic of all the four @War book-series are what many call 'little known' wars - primarily those since 1945, but often from earlier times too. Actually, we cover very different topics: from specific air forces to specific aircraft types, ground- and naval-forces too, and from coups (or coup-attempts), to battles, or entire campaigns and, indeed, entire wars - and very often some 'big' wars too ('Vietnam' is a good example).
Each volume is about 72 pages (some are slightly thicker), printed in DIN A4 format. Each contains between 30,000 and up to 60,000 words of text, anything between 80 and 120 photographs, up to 21 colour profiles.
Involved authors are some of best and most authoritative in this 'genre': people with dozens of years of research under their belts, best possible connections to necessary sources (including participants but official archives, too), and people with 'what it takes' to push through and get done what is often really highly-problematic piece of work: after all, researching about the conflicts about which we are researching and publishing, is often extremely problematic (and, at least sometimes, even 'dangerous').
For the 'start' I would like to present a 'collage' showing covers of some of latest volumes from the Middle East@War series: provided moderators here don't mind (Moderator adds OK with me), I would like to follow-up with similar presentations of the Africa@War, Asia@War, and Latin America@War series, too.
The Middle East@War book-series was 'launched' with a volume on an ongoing conflict: 'Syrian Conflagration', is covering the military history of the first two years of that war. Meanwhile, we've added plenty of additional titles, as can be seen below. Much more is to follow, including volumes going to unprecedented depths of the Arab-Israeli conflict, of different local military forces, and diverse other wars fought in that part of the world.
(Note #1: the 'covers' presented below are often crops from proof-files, and thus there might be minor differences to what the actual covers of books in question might look like;
Note #2: I've intentionally included only covers of books either published by now, or about to get published within the next 4-6 weeks; there is really a lot more to follow;
Note #3: on the first look, it might appear as if there is 'a lots of Tom Cooper' in this series. If that's making it any better, 'please don't worry': volumes authored by calibres like David Nicolle, Ted Hooton, Sergio Santana and many others are to follow.)
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