In lieu of our annual Top Ten voting, this year we present a compilation of statistics from our website showing the most popular pages for books, authors, publishers, and subjects. While these pages received the most visitors during 2004, keep in mind that measuring "page hits" is not the same thing as determining the "best" of the year. Visitors might have reached these pages for any of a variety of reasons, including sheer accident. Likewise, books which were in the database and accessible all year long could have a amassed a greater number of visitors than equally popular books that didn't show up until late in the year. So, slice and dice these standings however you like, but here are the most visited pages at Stone & Stone for the year 2004.

Book pages most visited

1. Agte, Patrick. Michael Wittman and the Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte
2. Balkoski, Joseph. Omaha Beach: June 6, 1944
3. Davies, Norman. Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
4. Bonn, Keith E. (editor) et al. Slaughterhouse: The Encyclopedia of the Eastern Front
5. Wilbeck, Christopher. Sledgehammers: Strengths and Flaws of Tiger Tank Battalions in World War II
6. Barris, Ted. Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944
7. Walker, Ian W. Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa
8. Sharpe, Michael and Brian L. Davis. Das Reich: Waffen--SS Armoured Elite
9. Sweeting, C.G. Blood and Iron: The German Conquest of Sevastopol
10. Foreman, John. Fighter Command War Diaries, Volume Five: July 1944 to May 1945
11. Foreman, John, Johannes Matthews, and Simon Parry. Luftwaffe Night Fighter Claims 1939 - 1945
12. Rubbel, Alfred with Dale Richard Ritter (series editor). Alfred Rubbel: Schwere Panzer (Tiger) Abteilung 503
13. Glantz, David M. Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941
14. Jarymowycz, Roman Johann. Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine
15. Maier, Georg. Drama between Budapest and Vienna: The Final Fighting of the 6. Panzer-Armee, 1945
16. Whitlock, Flint. The Fighting First: The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day
17. Zuehlke, Mark. The Gothic Line: Canada's Climactic World War II Triumph in Italy
18. Zuehlke, Mark. Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944
19. Nash, Douglas E. Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, January to February 1944
20. Penrose, Jane (editor). The D-Day Companion

Author pages most visited

1. David Glantz
2. Steve Zaloga
3. John Foreman
4. Christopher Shores
5. John R. Angolia
6. Paul Carell
7. Joseph Balkoski
8. Charles Whiting
9. Gordon L. Rottman
10. Mark Yerger
11. John Toland
12. Tony Le Tissier
13. Richard Overy
14. George Forty
15. Max Hastings
16. David Irving
17. Werner Haupt
18. Patrick Agte
19. Georg Tessin
20. Roger Freeman

Publisher pages most visited

1. Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2. Naval Institute Press
3. Oxford University Press
4. Simon & Schuster
5. Little Brown and Company
6. The Free Press
7. Osprey Publishing
8. Weidenfeld and Nicolson
9. Government Printing Office
10. Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers
11. Presidio Press
12. Alfred A. Knopf
13. Henry Holt and Company
14. John Murray Publishers Ltd
15. Sutton Publishing Ltd
16. St Martin's Press
17. Squadron Signal Publications
18. J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc
19. Kimber
20. Time Life Books

Subject pages most visited

1. Nations at war
2. Germany: Unit histories of divisions
3. United States: Ground unit histories of divisions
4. D-Day, 6 June 1944
5. United Kingdom: Regimental histories
6. Hitler's bunker
7. Italian campaign, 1943-1945: Unit histories
8. Germany: SS unit histories
9. Russo-German War, 1941-1945
10. Northwest Europe campaign, 1944-1945: Unit histories
11. France, Belgium, and Netherlands campaign, 1939-1940
12. Militaria and collectibles
13. Germany: Biographies and memoirs of soldiers and SS
14. Italian campaign, 1943-1945
15. Battle of Berlin, April-May 1945
16. Uniforms, helmets, and personal gear of ground forces
17. Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
18. Germany: Foreign volunteers in the armed forces
19. Normandy campaign, June-August 1944
20. North Africa campaigns and the Mediterranean, 1940-1943