For the first day of the new year we present a compilation of statistics from our website showing the most popular pages for books, authors, publishers, and subjects for 2005. While these pages received the most visitors during 2005, 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. And some of the pages most visited are for books not yet published. So, slice and dice these standings however you like, but here are the most visited pages at Stone & Stone for the year 2005.

Book pages most visited

1. Agte, Patrick. Michael Wittmann and the Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte
2. Sharpe, Michael and Brian L. Davis. Das Reich: Waffen-SS Armoured Elite
3. Rohwer, Jurgen and G. Hummelchen. Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two
4. Lorant, Jean-Yves and Richard Goyat. Jagdgeschwader 300: A Chronicle of a Fighter Geschwader in the Battle for Germany, volume 1: June 1943 - September 1944
5. Nash, Douglas E. Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, January to February 1944
6. Bonn, Keith E. (editor) et al. Slaughterhouse: The Encyclopedia of the Eastern Front
7. Brongers, E.H. Battle for The Hague, 1940
8. Le Tissier, Tony. Third Reich Then and Now
9. Reid, Brian A. No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944
10. Rikmenspoel, Marc J. Waffen-SS Encyclopedia
11. Bergstrom, C., Vlad Antipov and Andrey Dikov. Black Cross, Red Star: The Air War over the Eastern Front, vol 3: Everything for Stalingrad
12. Frieser, Karl-Heinz. Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
13. Perrigault, Jean-Claude and Rolf Meister. Gotz von Berlichingen, volume 1: Normandie
14. Balkoski, Joseph. Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944
15. Glantz, David. Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943
16. Shores, Christopher. Air War for Burma: The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia, 1942-1945
17. Agte, Patrick. Jochen Peiper: Commander Panzerregiment Leibstandarte
18. Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
19. Pegg, Martin. Hs 129 Panzerjaeger
20. Ungvary, Krisztian. Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II

Author pages most visited

1. David Glantz
2. Steve Zaloga
3. Christopher Shores
4. Louis de Jong
5. John R. Angolia
6. Tony Le Tissier
7. Patrick Agte
8. Paul Carell
9. Eric Hammel
10. Charles Whiting
11. Gordon L. Rottman
12. Georg Tessin
13. Antonio J. Munoz
14. Richard Overy
15. John Lundstrom
16. Joseph Balkoski
17. John Foreman
18. Ken Ford
19. Mark Yerger
20. Alfred Price

Publisher pages most visited

1. Houghton Mifflin
2. Oxford University Press
3. Kimber
4. Schiffer Publishing Ltd
5. Rand McNally
6. Naval Institute Press
7. Simon & Schuster
8. Government Printing Office
9. Random House
10. Osprey Publishing
11. St Martin's Press
12. Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers
13. Little Brown and Company
14. Harcourt
15. Doubleday
16. Weidenfeld and Nicolson
17. Henry Holt and Company
18. Cambridge University Press
19. Alfred A. Knopf
20. John Wiley & Sons

Subject pages most visited

1. Germany: Unit histories of divisions
2. Nations at war
3. United States: Ground unit histories of divisions
4. United Kingdom: Regimental histories
5. Strategic bombing of Germany and occupied Europe
6. Northwest Europe campaign, 1944-1945: Ground unit histories
7. France, Belgium, and Netherlands campaign, 1939-1940
8. Russo-German War, 1941-1945
9. Germany: SS unit histories
10. Battle of Berlin, April - May 1945
11. Italian campaign, 1943-1945: Unit histories
12. Militaria and collectibles
13. Canada: Regimental histories
14. Hitler's bunker
15. Germany: Biographies and memoirs of soldiers and SS
16. D-Day, 6 June 1944
17. Central Pacific Area operations, 1941-1945
18. Germany: Armored fighting vehicles
19. Germany: Air unit histories
20. Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarcks operations, 1942-1945: Unit histories