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Now available from EEM
31 December 2011

Balogh, Beni L. The Second Vienna Award and Hungarian-Romanian Relations, 1940-1944. New York: East European Monographs, 2011


Forthcoming from Tauris
28 December 2011

Muller, Rolf-Dieter. The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in July 2012


Forthcoming from Stackpole
27 December 2011

Lucke, Fritz. Panzer Wedge: The 3rd Panzer Division's Drive on Moscow, 1941. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in May 2012


Now available from NIP
26 December 2011

Satterfield, John R. Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011


Book review
25 December 2011

Niestle, Axel. German U-Boat Losses during World War II: Details of Destruction. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998

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Now available from Yale
24 December 2011

Gerwarth, Robert. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011


News from Canada
23 December 2011

This just in from J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing:

"As we have been promising for a number of months, here is our latest title, Das Reich volume five, by Otto Weidinger. This is the fifth and last volume of the massive set on this division and completes the 21-year wait. The book is due in February 2012."


Now available from Arkansas
22 December 2011

Dumas, Ernie (editor). Dearest Letty: The World War II Love Letters of Sgt Leland Duvall. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2011


Now available from Tauris
21 December 2011

Mangold, Peter. Britain and the Defeated French: From Occupation to Liberation, 1940-1944. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2011


Forthcoming from Indiana
20 December 2011

Megargee, Geoffrey P. and Martin Dean (editors). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Forthcoming from Indiana University Press in April 2012


News from Joe Balkoski
19 December 2011

Author Joe Balkoski sends this signal:

"All my books on D-Day and the 29th Division have recently been converted into Kindle editions and are currently included in the Amazon.com Kindle Store....

"My newest effort, Our Tortured Souls: The 29th Infantry Division in the Rhineland, November - December 1944, is complete, but I am still waiting to hear from interested publishers. It is Volume IV in the 29th Division series, telling the story of the 29th's role in the US Army's November 1944 offensive in the Rhineland."


Now available from CUP
17 December 2011

Stahel, David. Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011


Forthcoming from Harvard
16 December 2011

Berkhoff, Karel C. Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II. Forthcoming from Harvard University Press in March 2012


Recommended
16 December 2011

Based on the latest arrivals here, we've updated our Recommended Reading page to reflect our opinions about some of the most important books recently published.


Forthcoming from Transaction
15 December 2011

Merten, Ulrich. Forgotten Voices: The Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern Europe After World War II. Forthcoming from Transaction Publishers in January 2012


Now available from Praeger
14 December 2011

Joseph, Frank. The Axis Air Forces: Flying in Support of the German Luftwaffe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2011


News from Osprey
13 December 2011

Across the sea in Botley, the production schedule calls for new books from Robert Forczyk, Steve Zaloga, Ken Ford, Mark Stille, John Weal, Dmitriy Khazanov, and others over the next three months or so. Check our Osprey page for full details.


Now available from NIP
12 December 2011

Morgan, Daniel and Taylor Bruce. U-Boat Attack Logs: A Complete Record of Warship Sinkings from Original Sources 1939-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011


Book review
11 December 2011

Moore, William Mortimer. Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011

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Now available from Palgrave Macmillan
10 December 2011

Ramet, Sabrina P. and Ola Listhaug (editors). Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company, 2011


Now available from Texas
9 December 2011

Rich, Donald J. and Kevin Brooks. Glider Infantryman: Behind Enemy Lines in World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011


Now available from ABC-CLIO
8 December 2011

Tucker, Spencer. World War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.


Forthcoming from Continuum
7 December 2011

Gemie, Sharif et al. Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-48. Forthcoming from Continuum in January 2012


War Diary
7 December 2011

This seems like a good day to remind everyone that our War Diary includes almost 60,000 individual military, diplomatic, political, economic, and related events that occurred around the globe during World War II, offering an unprecedented, day-by-day record of the entire war.


Now available from Glencannon
6 December 2011

Reminick, Gerald. Little Ships: Tugboats at D-Day, Normandy. El Cerrito, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2011


News from Canada
5 December 2011

Mark Zuehlke tells us his new book, Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, part of the Canadian Battles series, is now available in Canada and should be available in the US in March 2012. His next volumes will cover Dieppe (due in August 2012) and then the Rhineland offensive of February and March 1945.


Book review
4 December 2011

Hayward, Joel S.A. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998

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Now available from McFarland
3 December 2011

Uziel, Daniel. Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2011


Our recommendations
2 December 2011

As we do upon occasion, we've updated our Recommended Reading page to reflect our opinions about some of the most important new books to arrive here.


Now available from Andrea
1 December 2011

Saiz, Agustin. Heitai: Uniforms, Equipment & Personal Items of the Japanese Soldier, 1937-1945. Andrea Press, 2011

 

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