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Forthcoming from Overlook 27 January 2012 Caddick-Adams, Patrick. Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives. Forthcoming from Overlook Press in February 2012
Now available from Panzerwrecks Haasler, Timm et al. Duel in the Mist 2: The Leibstandarte during the Ardennes Offensive. Monroe, NY: Panzerwrecks, 2012
Forthcoming from Edwin Mellen Pritchard, R. John. The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial. Forthcoming from The Edwin Mellen Press in February 2012
Now available from Berghahn Angrick, Andrej and Peter Klein. The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012
Forthcoming from Simon Tillman, Barrett. Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II. Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in February 2012
Now available from Schiffer Jowett, Philip S. Soldiers of the White Sun: The Chinese Army at War, 1931-1949. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2011 Wolf, William. The 5th Fighter Command in World War II, volume 1: Pearl Harbor to the Reduction of Rabaul. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2011
Forthcoming from Annapolis Goldman, Stuart D. Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in April 2012
Now available from Continuum Gemie, Sharif et al. Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-48. New York: Continuum, 2012
Now available from Nebraska Ancel, Jean. The History of the Holocaust in Romania. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2012
Forthcoming from Alabama Johnston, Carolyn Ross. My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II. Forthcoming from University of Alabama Press in August 2012
News from Osprey Osprey has added several new WWII titles to its publication schedule, including books from Hodges, Chun, Young, Forczyk, Fletcher, and Gardner. Check our Osprey Publishing page for full details.
Forthcoming from both sides of the Atlantic War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1939-1945 by Marcus Faulkner is scheduled for release by Seaforth in March and Naval Institute Press in July.
Book review Nipe, George M. Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II.SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka. Stamford, CT: RZM Publishing, 2011
Now available from Stanford Nash, George. Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011
Now available from AirConnection Stokes, Neil. KV: Technical History and Variants. Missisauga: AirConnection, 2012
News from Dialogue Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon: Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII by Vadim Birstein is now available.
Forthcoming from Singapore Kratoska, Paul H. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1940-1945. Forthcoming from National University of Singapore Press in May 2012
Koskimaki lands again We're told Casemate has reprinted George Koskimaki's trilogy of first-person 101st Airborne titles in softcover.
News from Texas Texas A&M University Press and the Consortium have announced three WWII-related titles for publication over the next few months:
Editor's Choice awards for 2011 Stone & Stone Second World War Books annually selects new releases for the Editor's Choice awards, aka the "Stonies," as the best books of the year. Here are the winners of the Stonies for 2011.
Forthcoming from W&N Beevor, Antony. The Second World War. Forthcoming from Weidenfeld and Nicolson in June 2012
In memoriam Frank Sennello—a veteran of Pearl Harbor who served aboard USS Narwhal—died in California at the age of 90 on 3 January.
News from Pelican Pelican Publishing Company of Louisiana will be releasing two new titles next month:
In memoriam Keith Little—USMC veteran, code talker, and in later years president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association—died on 3 January in Arizona at the age of 87.
Now available from Pen and Sword Kieser, Egbert. Prussian Apocalypse: The Fall of Danzig 1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2011
T. Cadman The mailman has delivered printed "Catalogue #120" from T. Cadman WW2 Books with more than 25 pages of secondhand books for sale.
Forthcoming from Yale Bidlack, Richard and Nikita Lomagin. The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in August 2012
Forthcoming from Tauris Crowhurst, Patrick. Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II: Domination and Retaliation. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in August 2012
Forthcoming from Princeton Costigliola, Frank. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War. Forthcoming from Princeton University Press in February 2012
Book statistics For the beginning of the new year we present a compilation of statistics from Stone & Stone showing the most popular books, authors, publishers, and subjects for the year 2011.
Now available from EEM Balogh, Beni L. The Second Vienna Award and Hungarian-Romanian Relations, 1940-1944. New York: East European Monographs, 2011
Forthcoming from Tauris Muller, Rolf-Dieter. The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in July 2012
Forthcoming from Stackpole Lucke, Fritz. Panzer Wedge: The 3rd Panzer Division's Drive on Moscow, 1941. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in May 2012
Now available from NIP Satterfield, John R. Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011
Book review Niestle, Axel. German U-Boat Losses during World War II: Details of Destruction. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998
Now available from Yale Gerwarth, Robert. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011
News from Canada This just in from J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing: "As we have been promising for a number of months, here is our latest title, Das Reich volume five, by Otto Weidinger. This is the fifth and last volume of the massive set on this division and completes the 21-year wait. The book is due in February 2012."
Now available from Arkansas Dumas, Ernie (editor). Dearest Letty: The World War II Love Letters of Sgt Leland Duvall. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2011
Now available from Tauris Mangold, Peter. Britain and the Defeated French: From Occupation to Liberation, 1940-1944. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2011
Forthcoming from Indiana Megargee, Geoffrey P. and Martin Dean (editors). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Forthcoming from Indiana University Press in April 2012
News from Joe Balkoski Author Joe Balkoski sends this signal: "All my books on D-Day and the 29th Division have recently been converted into Kindle editions and are currently included in the Amazon.com Kindle Store.... "My newest effort, Our Tortured Souls: The 29th Infantry Division in the Rhineland, November - December 1944, is complete, but I am still waiting to hear from interested publishers. It is Volume IV in the 29th Division series, telling the story of the 29th's role in the US Army's November 1944 offensive in the Rhineland."
Now available from CUP Stahel, David. Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Forthcoming from Harvard Berkhoff, Karel C. Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II. Forthcoming from Harvard University Press in March 2012
Recommended Based on the latest arrivals here, we've updated our Recommended Reading page to reflect our opinions about some of the most important books recently published.
Forthcoming from Transaction Merten, Ulrich. Forgotten Voices: The Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe After World War II. Forthcoming from Transaction Publishers in January 2012
Now available from Praeger Joseph, Frank. The Axis Air Forces: Flying in Support of the German Luftwaffe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2011
News from Osprey Across the sea in Botley, the production schedule calls for new books from Robert Forczyk, Steve Zaloga, Ken Ford, Mark Stille, John Weal, Dmitriy Khazanov, and others over the next three months or so. Check our Osprey page for full details.
Now available from NIP Morgan, Daniel and Taylor Bruce. U-Boat Attack Logs: A Complete Record of Warship Sinkings from Original Sources 1939-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011
Book review Moore, William Mortimer. Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011
Now available from Palgrave Macmillan Ramet, Sabrina P. and Ola Listhaug (editors). Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company, 2011
Now available from Texas Rich, Donald J. and Kevin Brooks. Glider Infantryman: Behind Enemy Lines in World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011
Now available from ABC-CLIO Tucker, Spencer. World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Forthcoming from Continuum Gemie, Sharif et al. Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-48. Forthcoming from Continuum in January 2012
War Diary This seems like a good day to remind everyone that our War Diary includes almost 60,000 individual military, diplomatic, political, economic, and related events that occurred around the globe during World War II, offering an unprecedented, day-by-day record of the entire war.
Now available from Glencannon Reminick, Gerald. Little Ships: Tugboats at D-Day, Normandy. El Cerrito, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2011
News from Canada Mark Zuehlke tells us his new book, Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, part of the Canadian Battles series, is now available in Canada and should be available in the US in March 2012. His next volumes will cover Dieppe (due in August 2012) and then the Rhineland offensive of February and March 1945.
Book review Hayward, Joel S.A. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998
Now available from McFarland Uziel, Daniel. Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2011
Our recommendations As we do upon occasion, we've updated our Recommended Reading page to reflect our opinions about some of the most important new books to arrive here.
Now available from Andrea Saiz, Agustin. Heitai: Uniforms, Equipment & Personal Items of the Japanese Soldier, 1937-1945. Andrea Press, 2011
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