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Now available from McFarland Lepage, Jean-Denis. Military Trains and Railways. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2017
Forthcoming from NIP Britts, Angus. Neglected Skies: The Demise of British Naval Power in the Far East, 1922?42. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in October 2017
Now available from Prometheus Gordon, Edward E. and David Ramsay. Divided on D-Day: How Conflicts and Rivalries Jeopardized the Allied Victory at Normandy. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017
Forthcoming from Penguin Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. Forthcoming from Penguin Press in October 2017
News to us Despite our best efforts to stay on top of important new books about World War II, occasionally one slips past us, and that was the case with The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies from Leiden University Press in the Netherlands. Written by the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan and originally published in the 1960s as the third volume (out of 102) of the semi-official Japanese war history series, an English edition translated and edited by Willem Remmelink appeared in 2015. The printed version of the English edition remains available from Leiden, and a free download is also available.
Everybody Comes to Rick's Hindley, Meredith. Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II. Forthcoming from PublicAffairs in October 2017
Now available from Helion Steenkamp, Willem. The Black Beret, volume 2: The Italian Campaign 1943-45 and Post-War South Africa 1946-1961. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017
Forthcoming from Yale Fry, Helen. The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in October 2017
News from Canada According to J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing, Combat History of the 17th SS Panzer-Grenadier Division Gotz von Berlichingen, volume 1 by Hans Stober has ben printed and should be in stock toward the end of October.
Now available from Hong Kong Banham, Tony. Reduced to a Symbolical Scale: The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017
Now available from Bloomsbury Pistol, Rachel. Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA. London: Bloomsbury, 2017
Forthcoming from Hachette Mundy, Liza. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. Forthcoming from Hachette Books in October 2017
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, JVKBooks, and book, A Tribute to the 109th Evacuation Hospital (SM), to our Directory of Self-Publishers. If you've self-published a military-related title about World War II, especially if you're a veteran writing about your wartime experiences, please send us information so we can add you to the Directory.
Book review Harrison Place, Timothy. Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944: From Dunkirk to D-Day. London: Frank Cass, 2000
From Shakespeare to Churchill Shakespeare, Nicholas. Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister. Forthcoming from Harvill Secker in October 2017
War Diary reminder This seems like a timely opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 9 September 1943 standing out as a fairly important date.
A rock disputed Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler by Nicholas Rankin is now available from Faber & Faber.
A city disputed Jennings, Christian. Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War. Forthcoming from ForeEdge / University Press of New England in October 2017
Now available from UBC Hayes, Geoffrey. Crerar's Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Lorimer Pauwels, Jacques R. Big Business and Hitler. Forthcoming from James Lorimer & Company Ltd, Publishers in October 2017
Now available from Stackpole Stenger, Dieter. Panzers East and West: The German 10th SS Panzer Division from the Eastern Front to Normandy. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2017
154 Printed "Catalogue #154" has arrived from T. Cadman WW2 Books. As usual, it contains a plethora of interesting Second World War titles ready for quick dispatch.
Book review Bradle, William R. The Daring World War II Raid on Ploesti. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017
A mountain—or hill—of books Over the last few weeks, Fonthill Media has built a stack of new WWII titles, including these:
In memoriam Aldo Fontana—who was awarded a Bronze Star for his service with Merrill's Marauders—died on 27 August in California at the age of 94.
War Diary reminder In rapid succession, this seems like another excellent opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 2 September 1945 standing out as a fairly important date.
War Diary reminder This seems like an excellent opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 1 September 1939 standing out as a fairly important date.
Now available from Indiana Boomhower, Ray E. Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, Sea Breeze Publishing, and book, Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth, to our Directory of Self-Publishers. If you've self-published a military-related title about World War II, especially if you're a veteran writing about your wartime experiences, please send us information so we can add you to the Directory.
Forthcoming from Praeger Zander, Patrick G. Hidden Armies of the Second World War: World War II Resistance Movements. Forthcoming from Praeger in September 2017
Now available from Schiffer Afiero, Massimiliano. The 8th Waffen-SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer: An Illustrated History. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2017
Forthcoming from McFarland Newell, Reg. Operation Squarepeg: The Allied Invasion of the Green Islands, February 1944. Forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc in September 2017
Book review Altobello, Brian. Into the Shadows Furious: The Brutal Battle for New Georgia. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000
In memoriam Jeannie Rousseau—a Frenchwoman who gathered intelligence and forwarded reports to London about the German V-weapons program and other topics, was arrested twice, and spent time in three German prison camps—died on 25 August in France at the age of 98.
The Marshal is in the House Helion & Company has announced publication of Marshal Malinovskii: Hero of the Soviet Union by Boris Sokolov.
Forthcoming from one university press Harper, Glyn. The Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II. Forthcoming from Indiana University Press in September 2017
Forthcoming from another university press Guillemin, Jeanne. Hidden Atrocities: Japanese Germ Warfare and American Obstruction of Justice at the Tokyo Trial. Forthcoming from Columbia University Press in September 2017
Now available from Pelican Drez, Ronald J. Predicting Pearl Harbor: Billy Mitchell and the Path to War. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017
Now available from OUP Campbell, Ian. The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Liveright Korda, Michael. Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory. Forthcoming from Liveright in September 2017
Forthcoming from Collins Bishop, Patrick. Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two: Spearhead of Victory. Forthcoming from Collins in September 2017
The panzers are coming For a variety of reasons, we don't normally mention pre-pub offers. In this case, the new promotion for Panzerkrieg: German Armoured Operations at Stalingrad, volume 1: Panzer-Abteilungen 103, 129 and 160 (the working title was "Stalingrad: Graveyard of the Panzers") seems to indicate the book's publication date—still unspecified—draws nigh.
The airfields are here Ramsey, Winston. Invasion Airfields Then and Now. London: After the Battle, 2017
Book review Zetterling, Niklas. Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness. Winnipeg, Manitoba: J.J. Fedorowicz, 2000.
Now available from Kagero Gil Martinez, Eduardo M. The Bulgarian Air Force in World War II: Germany's Forgotten Ally. Lublin, Poland: Kagero Publishing, 2017
Forthcoming from Stackpole Katz, David. South Africans vs. Rommel. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in September 2017
Now available from Pelican Bradle, William R. The Daring World War II Raid on Ploesti. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017
Forthcoming from Amberley Eriksson, Patrick. Alarmstart: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War: North-Western Europe 1939-1944. Forthcoming from Amberley Publishing in September 2017
News from Alabama University of Alabama Press has announced publication of Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman by Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner.
Forthcoming from Yale Siemens, Daniel. Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in November 2017
War Diary reminder This seems like another good opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 15 August 1945 standing out as a fairly important date.
Forthcoming from Routledge Brody, J. Kenneth. Crucible of a Generation: How the Attack on Pearl Harbor Transformed America. Forthcoming from Routledge in September 2017
Forthcoming from Allen Lane Todman, Daniel. Britain's War, volume 2: A New World, 1942-1947. Forthcoming from Allen Lane in November 2017
Now available from B and B Crowley, Mark J and Sandra Trudgen Dawson. Home Fronts: Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45. Martlesham, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2017
Forthcoming from University of North Texas Elrod, Roy H. (Edited by Fred H. Allison). We Were Going to Win, Or Die There: With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Forthcoming from University of North Texas Press in September 2017
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, Abdellatif Lahlali, and book, War Stories from My Father, to our Directory of Self-Publishers. This is an especially unusual story, detailing the military career of a Moroccan radioman in the French Army from 1940 through 1955, including service in French Northwest Africa, Italy, and western Europe during WWII. If you've self-published a military-related title about World War II, especially if you're a veteran writing about your wartime experiences, please send us information so we can add you to the Directory.
Now available from McFarland Langworth, Richard M. Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2017
Hungarian news from HHP Our neighbors at Helena History Press have in the pipeline three books about Hungary during World War II, with all expected to be available by November:
Check our listing for each book for full details from HHP.
Subject matters Looking for books on a particular wartime subject? Our Stone & Stone bibliographies contain more than 5000 individual WWII topics on file, all completely cross-referenced with links to related subjects, and each one packed with relevant books. You can also use the "Quick-Finder" feature in the upper left of any of our pages (select "subject" from the pop-up menu) to search for specific topics. For an example of our bibliographies, take a look at our page for Hungary.
War Diary reminder This seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 9 August 1945 standing out as a fairly important date.
Forthcoming from Douglas & McIntyre Zuehlke, Mark. The Cinderella Campaign: First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports. Forthcoming from Douglas & McIntyre in November 2017
News from Kansas University Press of Kansas reports that Flying against Fate: Superstition and Allied Aircrews in World War II by S. P. MacKenzie has arrived at the UPK warehouse.
Waiting for Miles, Monk, and Coltrane Studdert, Will. The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in November 2017
War Diary reminder This seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 7 August 1942 standing out as a fairly important date.
Book review May, Ernest R. Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000
Now available from Amberley Buckton, Henry. Retreat: Dunkirk and the Evacuation of Western Europe. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2017
Meaty news Alexander Hill, author of the meaty and highly-regarded The Red Army and the Second World War, tells us "I have a somewhat less meaty...but hopefully useful Osprey title coming out in early 2018, Soviet Destroyers of World War II."
Forthcoming from F & F Rankin, Nicholas. Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler. Forthcoming from Faber & Faber in September 2017
Now available from Australia Rosen, Sue. Scorched Earth: Australia's Secret Plan for Total War Under Japanese Invasion in World War Two. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2017
Lieutenants and captains from the north Hayes, Geoffrey. Crerar's Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45. Forthcoming from University of British Columbia Press in September 2017
Forthcoming from Sussex Seoane, Emilio Grandio. A Balancing Act: British Intelligence in Spain during the Second World War. Forthcoming from Sussex Academic Press in December 2017
Now available from Osprey Forsyth, Robert. Shadow over the Atlantic: The Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943-45. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2017
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