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News archive for October 2007
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Now available from Knopf Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York: Knopf, 2007
Now available from Simon & Schuster Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007
Forthcoming from Routledge Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War. Forthcoming from Routledge in December 2007
Now available from Casemate Jones, Michael K. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2007
Now available from Crown Campbell, James. The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea, the Forgotten War of the South Pacific. New York: Crown, 2007
Now available from Harcourt Heimann, Judith M. The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II. New York: Harcourt, 2007
Forthcoming from Red Kite Parry, Simon. War-Torn Skies: Battle of Britain, Surrey. Forthcoming from Red Kite in November 2007 Evan-Hart, Julian. War-Torn Skies: Battle of Britain, Hertfordshire. Forthcoming from Red Kite in April 2008
This day in history Sixty-five years ago today, on 26 October 1942, fighting raged around the globe: German 6th Army and Soviet 62nd Army grappled in Stalingrad, the Second Battle of Alamein continued in Egypt, USN and IJN forces slugged it out in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, and Australian 16th Brigade pushed against the Japanese rearguard on the Kokoka Track.
Now available from D & M Zuehlke, Mark. Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944. Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007
Now available from Ian Allan Ware, Pat. Red Ball Express: Supply Line from the D-Day Beaches. Hersham, UK: Ian Allan Publishing, 2007
Forthcoming from Tauris Robinson, Alan. Chaplains at War: The Role of Clergymen during World War II. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in July 2008
This day in history Sixty-five years ago today, on 23 October 1942, British 8th Army opened the Second Battle of Alamein during the night by launching a massive assault against Axis positions.
Now available from Stackpole Wood, James A. Army of the West: The Weekly Reports of German Army Group B, May-October 1944. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2007
Book review Rolf, David. The Bloody Road to Tunis: Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa: November 1942 - May 1943. London: Greenhill Books, 2001
Now available from W and N Wilson, Kevin. Men of Air: The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007
Now available from McFarland Steiner, James. Hitler's Wehrmacht: German Armed Forces in Support of the Fuehrer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2007
Antheil After fifty years in the business, Antheil still sells books by mailing out printed catalogs, and #205 just arrived here with 44 pages of secondhand naval, maritime, military, and aviation titles.
Now available from Indiana Ehrenreich, Eric. The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007
Forthcoming from Routledge Sabrin, Ramet P. The Independent State of Croatia, 1941-45. Forthcoming from Routledge in November 2007
News from Osprey Like clockwork, the Osprey Publishing gang has released a batch of new titles. They've also announced nine new books for publication between now and February. Check our Osprey page for details.
Now available from UNC Press Muller, Eric L. American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007
News from OUP Our inside source at Oxford University Press tells us, regarding publication of the English edition of the Germany and the Second World War series from OUP, that part 1 of volume 9 can probably be expected in April or May 2008, with part 2 of volume 9 probably released in 2009, and volumes 8 and 10 following sometime afterward.
Now available from Simon & Schuster Kennedy, David M. The Library of Congress World War II Companion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007
In memoriam Nolan Herndon—a B-25 navigator-bombardier on the Doolittle raid who bombed Japan, landed at Vladivostok, and subsequently spent a year in Soviet captivity—died in South Carolina on 7 October at the age of 88.
Now available from Fedorowicz Berger, Florian. The Face of Courage: The 98 Men Who Received Both the Knight's Cross and the Close Combat Clasp in Gold. Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2007
Now available from Stanford MacKinnon, Stephen et al (editors). China at War: Regions of China, 1937-45. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007
This day in history Sixty-five years ago today, on 11 October 1942, US Navy Task Group 64.2 intercepted a Japanese convoy and bombardment force off Guadalcanal, leading to the naval Battle of Cape Esperance.
Recommended reading We receive and read many books, but we only reserve space on our Recommended Reading page for the best of the lot. The list of recommendations has been freshly updated to include more of our favorites.
Now available from Tauris Guinn, Gilbert S. and Bennett, G.H. British Naval Aviation in World War II: The US Navy and Anglo-American Relations. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2007
In memoriam Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema—a Dutchman who escaped from the Netherlands in 1940, served in the SOE and RAF, became aide-de-camp to Queen Wilhelmina, and later wrote Soldier of Orange about his wartime experiences—died in Hawaii on 26 September at the age of 90.
Now available from Histoire Delize, Jean. U-Boote Crews: Daily Life, 1939 - 1945. Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007 Lodieu, Didier. Dying for Saint-Lo: Hedgerow Hell, July 1944. Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007
Now available from Zenith Springer, Joseph A. Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II. St Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2007
Forthcoming from Penguin Horne, Alistair. To Lose a Battle: France 1940. Forthcoming from Penguin in November 2007
Now available from Indiana Madison, James H. Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007
Forthcoming from Fedorowicz Munch, Karlheinz. StuG.Abt. 210. Forthcoming from J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc in January 2008
Now available from Midland Smith, J. Richard et al. Luftwaffe Colours Schlachtflieger: Luftwaffe Ground-Attack Units, 1937-1945. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing Limited, 2007
Now available from Eagle Crandall, Jerry. The Focke-Wulf FW 190 Dora D-9, D-11, D-13, volume 1. Hamilton, MT: Eagle Editions, Ltd, 2007
Forthcoming from Catholic University Henry, Patrick. We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust. Forthcoming from Catholic University of America Press in November 2007
Now available from Holt Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007
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