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News archive for October 2009
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Forthcoming from Stackpole Yeide, Harry. Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in March 2010
Now available from Pen and Sword Tucker-Jones, Anthony. Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2009
Now available from Kansas Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. Allies against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
Forthcoming from Currey Killingray, David. Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War. Forthcoming from James Currey Publishers in February 2010
Now available from NIP Felton, Mark. Japan's Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009
Forthcoming from Yale Herf, Jeffrey. Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in November 2009
Book review Alden, John D. and Craig R. McDonald. United States and Allied Submarine Successes in the Pacific and Far East during World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2009
This day in history
Sixty-five years ago today, on 25 October 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf reached its climax with chaotic surface engagements, air action, and submarine attacks costing both sides heavily, but decisively defeating the IJN Sho-Go offensive.
Now available from Helion Georg, Friedrich. Hitler's Miracle Weapons, volume 3: From the America Rocket to an Orbital Station. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2009
Now available from NIP Giangreco, D.M. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009
This day in history
Sixty-five years ago today, on 23 October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its Sho-Go offensive against US naval forces in the Philippines, opening the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Now available from Pen and Sword James, Barrie G. Hitler's Gulf War: The Fight for Iraq 1941. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2009
Recommended reading We constantly receive books from publishers, distributors, authors, and others. Most are competent, workmanlike efforts, appealing to a fair number of readers. Even the weakest arrivals almost always have a few redeeming characteristics, making them perfect for somebody's bookshelf somewhere. Only a small percentage of new arrivals stand out as excellent, notably superior works. Whenever we receive books like that, we add them to our Recommended Reading page, and over the last few days we've updated that list with four new titles. Definitely worth a look.
News from Hellgate Hellgate Press, up in Oregon, tells us Leon Weckstein's memoir, Through My Eyes: 91st Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign, 1942-45, is now available.
This day in history
Sixty-five years ago today, on 20 October 1944, USN task groups landed four divisions of General Krueger's US 6th Army on Leyte Island, opening the invasion of the Philippines.
Now available from Stanford Bowman, Steven. The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940-1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009
Now available from Viking Beevor, Antony. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. New York: Viking, 2009
In memoriam Willard Varnell Oliver—a Navajo code talker with the US 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific—died on 14 October in Arizona at the age of 88.
Now available from Da Capo O'Donnell, Patrick K. They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany. New York: Da Capo Press, 2009
Forthcoming from Illinois Li, Danke. Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China. Forthcoming from University of Illinois Press in December 2009
This day in history Sixty-five years ago today, on 15 October 1944, the pace of global conflict accelerated as the Third Moscow Conference continued in the Soviet capital; Soviet forces captured Petsamo; Goebbels, lying about Rommel's death, announced to the German public the field marshal had died of wounds; at least four V-2 rockets were fired against England; the Hungarian government announced it was leaving the war, but German troops promptly took control of Budapest; British warships arrived in Greece in the wake of the German withdrawal; and Allied troops in northern Burma launched Operation Capital.
Now available from McFarland Alden, John D. United States and Allied Submarine Successes in the Pacific and Far East during World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2009
Forthcoming from Tauris May, Ernest R. Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in November 2009
Now available from Hikoki Dunning, Chris. Courage Alone: The Italian Air Force, 1940-1943. Crowborough, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2009
Now available from Cornell Manley, Rebecca. To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009
News from Osprey Our friends in Botley continue to crank 'em out, with several new titles hitting shelves over the last few days, and more added to the production schedule for release after the first of the year. Check our Osprey page for details.
Now available from Canada Husemann, Friedrich. In Good Faith: The History of the 4. SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division, volume 2: 1943-1945. Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2009
Now available from Allen Lane Andrew, Christopher. The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. London: Allen Lane, 2009
Now available from CUP Mawdsley, Evan. World War II: A New History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Forthcoming from Stackpole Kurowski, Franz. Jump Into Hell: German Paratroopers in World War II. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in January 2010
Now available from UPK Ehlers Jr, Robert S. Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
Now available from Zenith Green, Michael and James D. Brown. War Stories of D-Day: Operation Overlord: June 6, 1944. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2009 Karras, Steven. The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2009
Forthcoming from Berghahn Torrie, Julia S. For Their Own Good: Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945. Forthcoming from Berghahn Books in April 2010
Recommended As we like to do every now and then, we've updated our "Recommended Reading" page to reflect some of our latest favorites, especially ones we think other folks should know about.
Now available from NIP Haarr, Geirr H. The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009
Now available from Quercus Bishop, Patrick. Battle of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronicle, 10 July-31 October. London: Quercus Publishing, 2009
Book review Mann, Robert A. The B-29 Superfortress Chronology, 1934-1960. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2009
Now available from Casemate Denny, Isabel. The Fall of Hitler's Fortress City: The Battle for Konigsberg 1945. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2009
In memoriam Marek Edelman—who fought against the Germans in both the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943 and the Polish Home Army uprising of 1944 in Warsaw, survived the war, and subsequently wrote Resisting the Holocaust: Fighting Back in the Warsaw Ghetto—died in Poland on 2 October at the age of 90.
Now available from CUP Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Forthcoming from OUP Wylie, Neville. Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War 1939-1945. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in April 2010
In memoriam Maria Gulovich Liu—an agent for the Slovakian Resistance whose story was told in World War II: OSS Tragedy in Slovakia—has died in California at the age of 87.
News from New Britain (sort of) We're pleased to report that Bruce Gamble's long-promised book about the air siege of Rabaul, previously titled "Ring of Fire," is on the schedule for publication by Zenith in May 2010 as Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 - April 1943.
Now available from Pen & Sword Sutherland, Jon and Diane Canwell. Air War, Malta, June: June 1940 to November 1942. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2009 Stewart, Geoffrey. Dunkirk and the Fall of France. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2009
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