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Forthcoming from Classic 31 July 2014 Medcalf, William A. Junkers Ju88 Volume 2: The Bomber at War. Forthcoming from Classic Publications in August 2014
Forthcoming from Haus Schirach, Richard von. The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsacker and the German Bomb. Forthcoming from Haus Publishing in August 2014
In memoriam Theodore VanKirk—navigator aboard the Enola Gay when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima—died on 28 July in Georgia at the age of 93.
Now available from McFarland Williams, Greg H. The Liberty Ships of World War II: A Record of the 2710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators, and Namesakes with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2014
Forthcoming from Palgrave Prince, Cathryn J. Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company in August 2014
News from Pennsylvania Schiffer Publishing has released two books devoted to American air units:
Forthcoming from Edwin Mellen Pritchard, R. John. The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial: The Records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Forthcoming from Edwin Mellen Press in August 2014
Forthcoming from Tauris Trevor-Roper, Hugh R. The Secret World: Behind the Curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in August 2014
Forthcoming from Collins Richie, Alexandra. Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising. Forthcoming from Collins in August 2014
Book review Prefer, Nathan N. Vinegar Joe's War: Stilwell's Campaigns for Burma. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000
Now available from MMP Kudlicka, Bohumir and Radoslaw Szewczyk. Prinz Eugen: The Story of 7 Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division 1942-1945. Petersfield, Hampshire: MMP Books, 2014
Forthcoming from Quercus Lyman, Robert. Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho. Forthcoming from Quercus Publishing in August 2014
Forthcoming from Skyhorse Pearce, Jeff. Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941. Forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing in September 2014
Now available from Scribner Duffy, Peter. Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring. New York: Scribner, 2014
Forthcoming from Dundurn Argyle, Ray. The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France. Forthcoming from Dundurn Group in August 2014
Forthcoming from Deutsch Mortimer, Gavin. SAS on D-Day. Forthcoming from Andre Deutsch in August 2014
Now available from R and L Mercatante, Steven D. Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
Now available from NIP Perrett, Bryan. Why the Japanese Lost. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014
News from P & S There's never a shortage of new books on the way from Pen & Sword. Here are some of their upcoming titles that caught our attention:
Forthcoming from Knopf Bernstein, Richard. China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice. Forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf in November 2014
Now available from Stackpole Beckett, Ian F.W. Rommel Reconsidered. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2014
Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan O'Sullivan, Adrian. Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company in August 2014
Forthcoming from Little Brown Rosbottom, Ronald. When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-44. Forthcoming from Little Brown and Company in August 2014
Now available from Down Under Cooper, Anthony. Kokoda Air Strikes: Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942. Sydney, NSW: NewSouth Books, 2014
Book review Osborn, Patrick R. Operation Pike: Britain versus the Soviet Union, 1939-1941. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000
Forthcoming from John Murray McKinstry, Leo. Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940. Forthcoming from John Murray Publishers Ltd in August 2014
News from Osprey The industrious folks at Osprey Publishing have delivered to us a weighty box filled with their latest publications, including these new books:
Cadman Printed "Catalogue #135" has arrived here from T. Cadman WW2 Books of Carmichael, California, with the usual excellent selection of secondhand WWII titles for sale. Thank you, Tom.
Now available from OUP Dams, Carsten and Michael Stolle. The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
News from Mark Reardon Author Mark Reardon kindly sent along this news about his current project: "I am continuing preliminary work on a book on the US Army Air Force in Tunisia during 1942-43. It will focus almost as much on their Luftwaffe/Regia Aeronautica opponents and British allies as it will the 12th AF (and 9th AF interdiction missions). I have assembled a 2990 line entry plane by plane shoot down list of all RAF, Luftwaffe and USAAF (and most Italian Air Force) losses during the campaign. It turned out to be comprehensive enough for Chris Shores' Air War in the Mediterranean research team to ask for a copy, which I was honored to provide! I have completed a listing of Italian and German ships sunk by the USAAF during the November 1942 to May 1943 period, to include those hit while in port. The former list alone amounted to fourteen pages of single space entries. I am now compiling a chronology of USAAF operations using primary sources such as squadron and group mission reports. I have also located the files of the Mediterranean Air Force which I am going to begin examining this summer for additional material."
Forthcoming from Casemate Kamenir, Victor. Stemming the Blitzkrieg: Hitler's Failure on the Road to Moscow, 1941. Forthcoming from Casemate in August 2014
Forthcoming from HUP Motadel, David. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Forthcoming from Harvard University Press / Belknap in October 2014
Forthcoming from CUP Nicosia, Francis R. Nazi Germany and the Arab World. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in November 2014
News from England The folks at Helion have announced publication of three new WWII titles:
Book reviews Domagalski, John J. Into the Dark Water: The Story of Three Officers and PT-109. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2014 Batvinis, Raymond. Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014 Dildy, Douglas C. Fall Gelb 1940 (1): Panzer Breakthrough in the West. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2014 Fiedler, Arkady. 303 Squadron: The Legendary Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron. Los Angeles, CA: Aquila Polonica Publishing, 2010
Forthcoming from Methuen Dobinson, Colin. Operation Diver: Guns, Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45. Forthcoming from Methuen in August 2014
Now available from Canada Bercuson, David J. and Holger H. Herwig. Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War against Caribbean Oil. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2014
Forthcoming from Savas Beatie McCroden, William T. and Thomas Nutter. German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945. Forthcoming from Savas Beatie in August 2014
In memoriam Louis Zamperini—Olympic runner, veteran of the USAAF, and protagonist of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand—died in California on 2 July at the age of 97.
News from Jason Mark More than ten years after author Jason Mark published the highly-regarded initial offering of his nascent Leaping Horseman Books imprint in Australia, Stackpole Books has released in the US a big hardcover edition of Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad. The author has this to say about revisions: "The new edition has been lightly revised. Typos and factual errors corrected, some information removed (lists of transfers and promotions, which added nothing to the narrative), Appendix 1 (officer bios) considerably expanded. Budgetary constraints meant about 20 or 30 Bundesarchiv photos have been swapped out with photos of equal quality."
Now available from NAL Moore, Stephen L. Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway. New York: New American Library, 2014
News from Marc Rikmenspoel Author Marc Rikmenspoel sends us these notes about his latest project for Helion: "We decided to split the project into two volumes. The title of it is Sunwheels and Siegrunen: Wiking, Nordland, Nederland and the Germanic Waffen-SS in Photographs. Volume 1 will cover from before the war through the spring of 1943. Volume 2 will pick up the story in the spring of 1943, and continue to the end of the war. "I have just turned in the manuscript and photos for volume 1 to Helion. The book will have around 725 photos with highly detailed captions. It also will have several maps to help make sense of the often-obscure place names, a lengthy bibliography, and an appendix listing known Waffen-SS war reporter photographers. "The main body of volume 1 will cover Regiment Germania from its founding through the Polish and Western Campaigns, and then its detachment from the SS-VT Division for the founding of the Wiking Division. Wiking will be followed for its 1941 fighting across Ukraine. Then the Germanic Legions from Denmark, Flanders, the Netherlands and Norway are shown, from training until they left the front in early 1943. "The Wiking coverage resumes with a look at the Finnish Volunteer Battalion, which arrived at the division at the start of 1942. Wiking is then followed through the Caucasus campaign. Slight material is provided on the Heer Legion Wallonie and the Estonian Legion, enough to set the sage for more extensive coverage in volume 2. The last sections of volume 1 show the Norwegian Ski Company, foreign officer training at Bad Toelz, and recruiting rallies in Belgium and Norway in the spring of 1943."
Now available from McFarland Tolppanen, Bradley P. Churchill in North America, 1929. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2014
Now available from Glencannon Jaffee, Walter W. The Tugboats: From A (A.G. Wells) to Z (USS Zuni). El Cerrito, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2014
Book review Hague, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Now available from Zenith Morgan, Martin K. A. Americans on D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2014
Now available from Marble Arch Mayo, Jonathan. D-Day: Minute by Minute. New York: Marble Arch Press, 2014
Forthcoming from Grub Street Saunders, Andy. Arrival of Eagles: Luftwaffe Landings in Britain, 1939-1945. Forthcoming from Grub Street in July 2014
Forthcoming from McFarland Freitus, Joseph P. Virginia in the War Years, 1938-1945: Military Bases, the U-Boat War and Daily Life. Forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc in July 2014
News from RZM The folks from Connecticut have announced two new photo books in the works for publication toward the end of this year:
Now available from Helion Isaev, A. and M. Kolomiets. Tomb of the Panzerwaffe: The Defeat of the Sixth SS Panzer Army in Hungary. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2014
Forthcoming from CUP Rutherford, Jeff. Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941-1944. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in July 2014
Now available from Faber Bailey, Roderick. Target: Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943. London: Faber and Faber, 2014
Forthcoming from OUP Looks like two more titles on the horizon from OUP:
Book review Glantz, David M. The Stalingrad Trilogy: Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014
War Diary, 22 June 1941 This seems like a good moment to remind everyone about our very detailed War Diary, a complete day-by-day chronology of the Second World War with more than 61,000 individual entries about every aspect of the global conflict. For a good example of our War Diary, have a look at 22 June 1941.
Forthcoming from Palgrave Wilson, Cat. Churchill on the Far East in the Second World War: Hiding the History of the Special Relationship. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company in July 2014
In memoriam Walt Huss—a USAAF B-29 crewman whose bomber was rammed and downed by a Japanese aircraft over Manchuria on 7 December 1944 and spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp until liberated by Soviet troops—died in California on 16 June at the age of 91.
Now available from Tennessee Patterson, Robert P. Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2014
Now available from HM Baime, A. J. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2014
Forthcoming from Stackpole Beckett, Ian F.W. Rommel Reconsidered. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in July 2014
Forthcoming from Casemate Van Lunteren, Frank. The Battle of the Bridges: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden. Forthcoming from Casemate in July 2014
Now available from Grub Street Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume two: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943. London: Grub Street, 2014
Forthcoming from Scribner Duffy, Peter. Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring. Forthcoming from Scribner in July 2014
News from the West Midlands The helpful folks at Helion & Company have notified us their long-awaited Combat History of the 21st Panzer Division 1943-45 by Werner Kortenhaus is now available as of today. Looks like a solid package of more than 500 pages with 80 photos plus a separate volume of maps in color.
Book review Lewis, Tom and Peter Ingman. Carrier Attack: Darwin 1942: The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor. Kent Town, Australia: Avonmore Books, 2013
Forthcoming from NIP Perrett, Bryan. Why the Japanese Lost. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in July 2014
Forthcoming from Westholme Schultz, Duane. Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces. Forthcoming from Westholme Publishing in July 2014
Now available from Basic Lochery, Neill. Brazil: The Fortunes of War: World War II and the Making of Modern Brazil. New York: Basic Books, 2014
Forthcoming from R and L Mercatante, Steven D. Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe. Forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield in July 2014
Now available from Schiffer Harrison, John R. Fairwing Brazil: Tales of the South Atlantic in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2014
Recommended Sometimes we don't receive a noteworthy new book for weeks. Other times it seems like they arrive every day. Lately we've been receiving a steady stream of books that deserve extra attention, and we present them on our updated Recommended Reading page.
Forthcoming from Missouri Okerstrom, Dennis R. Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II. Forthcoming from University of Missouri Press in July 2014
Now available from Fonthill Cull, Brian. Blenheims Over Greece and Crete: RAF and Greek Blenheims in Action 1940-1941. Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media Limited, 2014
Forthcoming from Stackpole Mark, Jason D. Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in July 2014
News from OUP We are reliably informed that Oxford University has published these two titles:
Book reviews Palermo, Michele. Eagles over Gazala: Air Battles in North Africa, May - June 1942. Rome: IBN Editore, 2014 Mattioli, Marco. Mussolini's Hawks: The Fighter Units of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, 1943-1945. Rome: IBN Editore, 2012
Now available from UPK Glantz, David M. The Stalingrad Trilogy, volume 3: Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014
Now available from Michael O'Mara Field, Jacob F. D-Day in Numbers: The Facts behind Operation Overlord. London: Michael O'Mara, 2014
Now available from Life Editors of Life. D-Day: Remembering the Battle that Won the War - 70 Years Later. Life, 2014
War Diary, 6 June 1944 This seems like a good moment to remind everyone about our very detailed War Diary, a complete day-by-day chronology of the Second World War with more than 61,000 individual entries about every aspect of the global conflict. For a good example of our War Diary, have a look at 6 June 1944.
Now available from Pen and Sword Middlebrook, Martin and C. Everitt. The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2014
Now available from Schiffer Gassend, Jean-Loup. Operation Dragoon: Autopsy of a Battle: The Allied Liberation of the French Riviera August-September 1944. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2014
News from Ludovico Slongo Ludovico Slongo—co-author of Desert Prelude: Early Clashes and Desert Prelude: Operation Compass—sends this update on his latest projects. "The work on the Italian ghost fighter squadron in East Africa (that was the unit of Visintini) continues and we think we'll be able to complete it in 2015. Title—provisional—will be "Wandering Knights, the history of 412 Squadriglia in world war 2". The title comes from the unit's badge (a red prancing horse silhouetted over a black Africa) and his employment in penny packets sent back and forth all along the wide border area between Sudan and Ethiopia. We'll for sure publish it in Italian language—there are too many veteran's relatives that want to read it and don't know English language—but we've already had an offer to translate it and publish it also in English. The study will improve dramatically the knowledge of air operations in this front.... The images, all never seen before and including Italian subjects but also many Wellesley's, Hardy's and Blenheim's wrecks, are particularly impressive. "Next will be the book on all the air operations in East Africa, for which we are already collecting material. "The Greek project has lost its priority but will follow in due course."
In memoriam Chester Nez—one of the original Navajo code-talkers of World War II—died on 4 June at the age of 93 in Arizona.
Forthcoming from History Press Simmons, Mark. Agent Cicero: Hitler's Most Successful Spy. Forthcoming from The History Press in October 2014
Books, books, books Interesting and important books are always arriving here from every direction, and we're always updating our Recommended Reading page to reflect new releases, as we've just done.
Now available from Tauris Redford, Duncan. A History of the Royal Navy: World War II. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2014
Catalogs made of paper Sometimes it seems like the age before Gutenberg, so long ago when almost every day our trusty mail carrier would deliver a fresh catalog of secondhand books about World War II, each page bearing the promise of rare and unknown treasures. We just don't see many catalogs any more, so we were pleased today to receive printed Catalogue Code QO for Spring 2014 from The Military History Bookshop of Folkestone in Kent. Thank you for the paper pages full of treasures!
Forthcoming from Belknap Press Motadel, David. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Forthcoming from Belknap / Harvard University Press in October 2014
Book review Tillman, Barrett. US Marine Corps Fighter Squadrons of World War II. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2014
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