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Now available from Grub Street We're told that Grub Street has released a pair of new books:
Now available from NIP Aboul-Enein, Youssef H. and Basil H. Aboul-Enein. The Secret War for the Middle East: The Influence of Axis and Allied Intelligence Operations During World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2013
Now available from U of Rochester Cohen, Laurie R. Smolensk under the Nazis: Everyday Life in Occupied Russia. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013
Forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Hamilton, Nigel. The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942. Forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in May 2014
Now available from Yale Buckley, John. Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013
Recommended We've updated our Recommended Reading page, where we like to showcase titles deserving extra attention from readers.
Book review Stevens, David. U-Boat Far from Home: The Epic Voyage of U-862 to Australia and New Zealand. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997
News from Osprey The folks from Botley have stocked the shelves with their latest batch of releases:
In memoriam USN veteran Jack Gardo—last surviving crewman of PT-157, which rescued John F. Kennedy and the crew of PT-109 in 1943—died on 27 November in South Carolina at the age of 87.
Forthcoming from Schiffer Dalet, David. The Jeep: History of a World War II Legend. Forthcoming from Schiffer Publishing Ltd in December 2013
News from McFarland McFarland & Company of North Carolina has now released Benjamin Ferencz: Nuremberg Prosecutor and Peace Advocate by Tom Hofmann. In addition, McFarland plans to release these titles in December:
Forthcoming from Routledge Benedict, Susan and Linda Shields. Nurses in Nazi Germany: The Nazi Euthanasia Program. Forthcoming from Routledge in December 2013
Forthcoming from Vallentine Mitchell Sugarman, Martin. Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War. Forthcoming from Vallentine Mitchell Publishers in December 2013
Now available from Tauris Crowhurst, Patrick. Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II: Domination and Retaliation. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2013
Forthcoming from CUP Buchanan, Andrew. American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in December 2013
In memoriam Mavis Batey—who worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the war and subsequently wrote a biography of Dillwyn Knox—died on 12 November at the age of 92.
Book reviews Ellis, Frank. The Stalingrad Cauldron: Inside the Encirclement and Destruction of the 6th Army. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013 MacLean, French L. Stalingrad: The Death of the German Sixth Army on the Volga, 1942-1943. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2013
News from Helion The folks at Helion have announced that David Schranck's new book, Thunder at Prokhorovka: A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943, is now available.
Forthcoming from FSG Richie, Alexandra. Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising. Forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in December 2013
Now available from Man U Ollerenshaw, Philip. Northern Ireland in the Second World War: Politics, Economic Mobilisation and Society, 1939-45. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013
Forthcoming from Kentucky Mallett, Derek. Hitler's Generals in America: Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence. Forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in December 2013
Now available from Zenith Gamble, Bruce. Target: Rabaul: The Allied Siege of Japan's Most Infamous Stronghold, March 1943 - August 1945. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013
Forthcoming from OUP Laub, Thomas J. After the Fall: German Policy in Occupied France, 1940-1944. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in December 2013
Now available from Oklahoma Hargreaves, Andrew. Special Operations in World War II: British and American Irregular Warfare. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013
Forthcoming from UWP Hassing, Arne. Church Resistance to Nazism in Norway, 1940-1945. Forthcoming from University of Washington Press in December 2013
Forthcoming from History Press Ellis, John. Blackpool at War: A History of the Fylde Coast During the Second World War. Forthcoming from The History Press in December 2013
Now available from Bloomsbury Haslop, Dennis. Britain, Germany and the Battle of the Atlantic: A Comparative Study. London: Bloomsbury, 2013
Forthcoming from URP Cohen, Laurie R. Smolensk under the Nazis: Everyday Life in Occupied Russia. Forthcoming from University of Rochester Press in December 2013
In memoriam US Army veteran John "Bud" Hawk—recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in France in August 1944—died in Wisconsin on 4 November at the age of 89.
News from Panzerwrecks Bill Auerbach of Panzerwrecks tells us their next title, Nurnberg's Panzer Factory: A Photographic Study, should be available toward the end of December.
Now available from BD & L Overy, Richard (editor). The New York Times Complete World War II, 1939-1945: All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2013
Book review Balkoski, Joseph. Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1999
Forthcoming from OUP Symonds, Craig L. Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in May 2014
Forthcoming from The History Press Wragg, David. Operation Neptune: The Prelude to D-Day. Forthcoming from The History Press in May 2014
Forthcoming from Fonthill Media Limited Edwards, Kenneth. Operation Neptune. Forthcoming from Fonthill Media Limited in December 2013
Now available from Toronto Courteaux, Oliver. Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013
Forthcoming from Stackpole Wood, Michael. Tigers of the Death's Head: SS Totenkopf Division's Tiger Company. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in December 2013
Now available from McFarland Rosinski, Jan with Richard Hile. The Warsaw Underground: A Memoir of Resistance, 1939-1945. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2013
Cadman The mailman has delivered to us printed "Catalogue #131" from T. Cadman WW2 Books with a wide assortment of topnotch titles for sale.
Recommended We've sorted through the big stack of recently arrived books, identified the creme de la creme, and updated our Recommended Reading page.
Now available from Osprey McNab, Chris (editor). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939-45. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2013
Book review Kiesling, Eugenia C. Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996
Forthcoming from Regnery Tillman, Barrett. Forgotten Fifteenth: The Daring Mission to Destroy Hitler's Oil Empire. Forthcoming from Regnery Publishing, Inc in May 2014
Now available from Knopf Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013
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