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Now available from P & S Among the many new books from Pen and Sword, these have been brought to our attention:
News from the north J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc has announced the upcoming release of Combat History of the 17th SS Panzer-Grenadier Division Gotz von Berlichingen, volume 1 by Hans Stober, with a special pre-publication offer available through the end of August.
Aviation books from Denes Bernad Author Denes Bernad tells us he is going into the book business as a self-publisher, beginning with "...a series of hard cover pictorial albums with unpublished German and other European aircraft photos from pre-WW 2 and WW 2, printed in high-quality."
Now available from Penguin Alexievich, Svetlana. The Unwomanly Face of War. London: Penguin Press, 2017. This is the expanded, uncensored edition of a book originally published in Russian in 1985
Sooner or later I.B. Tauris continues to show multiple WWII-related titles on the production schedule, although exact dates of publication remain subject to the usual vagaries of the process:
Sneak preview We just reviewed Freddie Gough's Specials at Arnhem: An Illustrated History of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron from R. N. Sigmond, and today that Dutch publisher provides hints about the next Sigmond title: "[We've] started already with our next publication, this time from the German side, advancing from the west towards Arnhem/Oosterbeek, September 1944." Due next year.
Now available from Casemate Peto, George and Peter Margaritis. Twenty-Two on Peleliu: Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017
In memoriam Sam Glanzman—who served in the Pacific aboard the USN destroyer Stevens and subsequently wrote a series of comic books and graphic novels based on his WWII experiences—died on 12 July in New York at the age of 92.
Book review Hilton, Robert. Freddie Gough's Specials at Arnhem: An Illustrated History of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron. Renkum, Netherlands: R.N. Sigmond, 2017
Now available from Amberley Trigg, Jonathan. Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the Oostfronters. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2017
Of all the gin joints.... Hindley, Meredith. Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II. Forthcoming from PublicAffairs in October 2017
Trieste: Italy or Yugoslavia? 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 The History Press Bunch, Jim. U-Boats off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2017
Forthcoming from OUP Lewy, Guenter. Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in August 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 20 July 1944 standing out as a fairly important date.
Now available from Yale Kurlander, Eric. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017
Miracles happen Jacobsen, Alf R. Miracle at the Litza: Hitler's First Defeat on the Eastern Front. Forthcoming from Casemate in August 2017
News from Kansas University Press of Kansas includes two WWII-related titles in its "Fall & Winter 2017" catalog:
Forthcoming from Da Capo Wheelan, Joseph. Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal, The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War. Forthcoming from Da Capo Press in August 2017
Recommended We like to point out some of the new WWII-related books that we think are worthy of an extra measure of attention from thoughtful students of the war. To that end, today we updated our Recommended Reading page.
Now available from CUP Barkawi, Tarak. Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Routledge Roy, Kaushik. Tropical Warfare in the Asia Pacific Region, 1941-45. Forthcoming from Routledge in November 2017
Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Pistol, Rachel. Internment During the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in August 2017
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 France.
Forthcoming from Encounter Richman, Rick. Racing against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler. Forthcoming from Encounter Books in January 2018
Forthcoming from Stackpole Stenger, Dieter. Panzers East and West: The History of the German 10th SS Panzer Division in World War II. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in August 2017
Now available from Helion Harrison, Richard W. (editor). The Iasi-Kishinev Operation, 20-29 August 1944: The Red Army's Summer Offensive into the Balkans. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017
News from Missouri University of Missouri Press plans to publish Omar Nelson Bradley: America's GI General, 1893-1981 by Steven L. Ossad in November.
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 10 July 1943 standing out as a fairly important date.
Delivered to your door "Catalogue #153" has arrived from T. Cadman WW2 Books with 27 pages packed with books about the Second World War, all ready and waiting to be dispatched into the hands of readers across the country and around the world.
Book review Prusin, Alexander. Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017
Now available from the Netherlands Hilton, Robert. Freddie Gough's Specials at Arnhem: An Illustrated History of the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron. Renkum, Netherlands: R.N. Sigmond, 2017
Tome 2, en francais Mary, Jean-Yves with Pascal Kerger. Memorial de la Bataille de France, volume 2. Forthcoming from Editions Heimdal in August 2017
Now available from OUP Edele, Mark. Stalin's Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
Long time, no Munoz Munoz, Antonio J. The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941-1944. Forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc in January 2018
Wings Osprey has three of its "Air Campaigns" books on the schedule for publication shortly after the first of the year:
Now available from Potomac Kehn Jr, Donald M. In the Highest Degree Tragic: The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II. Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books Inc, 2017
Forthcoming from Lorimer Pauwels, Jacques R. Big Business and Hitler. Forthcoming from James Lorimer & Company Ltd, Publishers in October 2017
Now available from Amsterdam Porter, Edgar A. and Ran Ying Porter. Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Greenhill Paterson, Lawrence. Otto Kretschmer: The Life of Germany's Highest Scoring U-Boat Commander. Forthcoming from Greenhill Books in March 2018
Deep in the heart of.... The "Fall & Winter 2017" catalog from Texas A&M University Press and the Texas Book Consortium brings news of three upcoming WWII titles from a pair of fine Lone Star institutions:
Book review Zetterling, Niklas and Anders Frankson. Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis. London: Frank Cass, 2000
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 Operation Citadel, the Battle of Kursk.
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, Anne McCully Dorre, and book, Journals of War: Coming of Age with the 104th Infantry During World War II, 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 Amberley Trigg, Jonathan. Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the Oostfronters. Forthcoming from Amberley Publishing in July 2017
Now available from Helion Zamulin, Valeriy. The Battle Of Kursk: Controversial And Neglected Aspects. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017
Now available from Schiffer Afiero, Massimiliano. The 6th Waffen-SS Gebirgs (Mountain) Division Nord: An Illustrated History. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2017
Forthcoming from Stackpole Barron, Leo. Patton's First Victory. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in September 2017
Now available from CUP: The Volksdeutsch, occupation, and collaboration in the Banat region of Serbia Zakic, Mima. Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017
War begins, book delayed Books don't have a standard term of gestation. The War Begins: The Navy's Early Carrier Raids, February-May 1942 by David Lee Russell was originally scheduled for publication in May 2014. The latest word from Naval Institute Press? Look for it in June 2018. Getting it right is more important than getting it out on a deadline.
News from Fonthill As with many publishers, Fonthill's schedule for rolling out new books sometimes needs to be revised. Thus, no guarantees on publication dates, but here's some of what's on the horizon:
In memoriam Arthur Inerfield—who as a young US Army officer survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—died in California on 16 June at the age of 98.
Book review Grooss, Poul. The Naval War in the Baltic, 1939-1945. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth / Pen & Sword, 2017
Now available from Helion Isaev, Alexei. Dubno 1941: The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, Ann P. Mayfield, and book, Through the Eyes of Bruce Price, My Father, 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 Collins Miner, Steven Merritt. The Furies Unleashed: The Soviet Peoples at War 1941-1945. Forthcoming from Collins in September 2017
Forthcoming from Penguin Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. Forthcoming from Penguin Press in October 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 22 June 1941 standing out as a fairly important date.
Now available from Illinois Prusin, Alexander. Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017
Now available from Osprey Anderson, Thomas. The History of the Panzerwaffe Volume 2: 1942-1945. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2017
Forthcoming from Polity Yarov, Sergey. Leningrad 1941-42: Morality in a City Under Siege. Forthcoming from Polity Press in July 2017
Now available from Da Capo Sloan, Bill. Their Backs against the Sea: The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Potomac Spragg, Dennis M. Glenn Miller Declassified. Forthcoming from Potomac Books Inc in September 2017
Now available from Tauris Kundahl, George G. The Riviera at War: World War II on the Cote d'Azur. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017
Home sweet home Crowley, Mark J and Sandra Trudgen Dawson. Home Fronts: Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45. Forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer in July 2017
Now available from Schiffer DeJohn, Christian M. For Want of a Gun: The Sherman Tank Scandal of WWII. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2017
Recommended There are as many different tastes in books as there are readers, but we like to point out some of the new WWII-related books that we think are worthy of an extra measure of attention from thoughtful students of the war. To that end, today we updated our Recommended Reading page.
Old Hickory has arrived Baumer, Robert W. Old Hickory: The American 30th Infantry Division in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2017
Scary monsters (and super creeps) Kurlander, Eric. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in July 2017
Now available from History Press Tucker-Jones, Anthony. Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2017
The Baltic, again The US edition of The Naval War in the Baltic, 1939-1945 by Poul Grooss is now available from Naval Institute Press. Update 1: Interestingly, our copy—ostensibly from NIP—shows Seaforth (an imprint of Pen & Sword) on the title page. Update 2: NIP confirms that they do not have their own edition of this title. Instead, "We have the rights to sell this book in the US and Canada for Seaforth."
In memoriam Fred Smith—a crewman on USS Tennessee who survived Pearl Harbor and subsequently served aboard USS Saratoga—died in California on 21 May at the age of 94.
Forthcoming from Casemate Jephson, F.R. and Chris Jephson. The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942. Forthcoming from Casemate in December 2017
Zap 1: Now available Zapotoczny, Walter S. The 110th Holds in the Ardennes: The Blunting of Hitler's Last Gamble and the Invasion of the Reich. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017
Zap 2: Now available Zapotoczny, Walter S. Decima Flottiglia MAS: The Best Commandos of the Second World War. Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media Limited, 2017
Forthcoming from Routledge Brody, J. Kenneth. Crucible of a Generation: How the Attack on Pearl Harbor Transformed America. Forthcoming from Routledge in September 2017
Now available from OUP Heinrichs, Waldo and Marc Gallicchio. Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Amberley Buckingham, Bill. Arnhem: The Battle of the Bridges. Forthcoming from Amberley Publishing in July 2017
Memories of the Waffen-SS Schiffer Publishing has released two books by SS veterans, with both titles edited by Rolf Michaelis:
Full moon over Cape Hatteras? Bunch, Jim. U-Boats off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight. Forthcoming from The History Press in July 2017
Forthcoming from Osprey Forczyk, Robert. Case Red: The Collapse of France, 1940. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing 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 6 June 1944 standing out as a fairly important date.
Now available from Panzerwrecks Neely, Darren. Forgotten Archives: The Lost Signal Corps Photos, 2. Heathfield, Sussex: Panzerwrecks, 2017
In memoriam Ken Ross—who served in the US 101st Airborne Division and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge, then wrote about his wartime experiences in We Didn't Know We Were Heroes—died on 14 May in California at the age of 93.
Book review Prefer, Nathan N. Vinegar Joe's War: Stilwell's Campaigns for Burma. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2000
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 4 June 1942 standing out as a fairly important date.
Now available from OUP Casey, Steven. The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
In memoriam Paul Spedick, Sr—a veteran of the US 2nd Marine Division who was decorated for his service during the landing on Tarawa—died on 30 May in California at the age of 95.
Forthcoming from D & M Zuehlke, Mark. The Cinderella Campaign: First Canadian Army and the Channel Port Battles. Forthcoming from Douglas & McIntyre in November 2017
Another day, another book about Norway The latest in a batch of interesting new books about the Norwegian campaign—Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940 by John Kiszely—is now available from Cambridge University Press.
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 the 1940 campaign in Norway.
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