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Forthcoming from HMH Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945. Forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September 2013
Forthcoming from Random House Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II. Forthcoming from Random House in May 2013
Now available from Amber Books Two fresh reprints have been published by Amber:
Forthcoming from Osprey Buttar, Prit. Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in May 2013
Forthcoming from Columbia Hoare, Marko Attila. The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: A History. Forthcoming from Columbia University Press in May 2013
Forthcoming from Palgrave Shilcutt, Tracy. Infantry Combat Medics in Europe, 1944-45. Forthcoming from Palgrave in May 2013
Forthcoming from Kent State Barger, Judith. Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II. Forthcoming from Kent State University Press in May 2013
Now available from S&S Cobb, Matthew. Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013
Forthcoming from Preface Williams, Michael. Steaming to Victory: How Britain's Railways Won the War. Forthcoming from Preface Publishing in May 2013
Recommended We've updated our Recommended Reading page to offer our latest thoughts on the most important new books coming to our attention.
Now available from Plymouth Grove, P. D. Turning the Tide: The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Plymouth, England: University of Plymouth Press, 2013
Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster Scott, James. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan. Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in May 2013
Now available from UPK Revelli, Benvenuto. Mussolini's Death March: Eyewitness Accounts of Italian Soldiers on the Eastern Front. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013
Forthcoming from Polity Ingrao, Christian. Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine. Forthcoming from Polity Press in May 2013
Now available from Osprey The kind folks at Osprey dispatched a package in this directionthanks!with three new titles:
Forthcoming from Harvard Moore, Aaron William. Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. Forthcoming from Harvard University Press in May 2013 13th
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, Sandra O'Connell, and her book, An American Family in World War II, to our Directory of Self-Publishers. If you've self-published a military-related title about World War II, especially if you're a veteran writing about your wartime experiences, please send us information so we can add you to the Directory.
Book review Glenn, Harlan and Remy Spezzano. Kampfraum Arnheim: A Photo Study of the German Soldier Fighting in and around Arnhem, September 1944. Stamford, CT: RZM Publishing, 2013
News from Helion It looks like Helion & Company has released three WWII books all at once, including two new titles and one softcover reprint.
Forthcoming from National Geographic Cronkite IV, Walter and Maurice Isserman. Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home. Forthcoming from National Geographic in May 2013
Now available from Germany Prien, Jochen et al. Die Jagdfliegerverbande der Deutschen Luftwaffe 1934-19456, Teil 12, Band II: Einsatz im Osten 3.2. bis 31.12.1943. Eutin: Struve Druck Verlag, 2013
Forthcoming from Little Brown Downing, Taylor. Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII. Forthcoming from Little Brown and Company in May 2013
News from Kansas Does it feel like it's been a darned long wait for the third volume of the Stalingrad trilogy by Col. David Glantz? Be patient. University Press of Kansas says we need to wait another year, with publication now scheduled for spring 2014.
In memoriam We've just belatedly learnedthank you, Ron Nass, for alerting usthat respected historian and author Vincent Orange passed away in November.
Welcome to the new world The folks at RZM, exclusive US distributors for After the Battle, tell us that The Desert War: Then and Now by Jean Paul Pallud has finally reached American shores and is now available on this side of the Atlantic.
Forthcoming from Berkley Alexander, Bevin. Macarthur's War: The Flawed Genius Who Challenged The American Political System. Forthcoming from Berkley in May 2013
News from India Many thanks to Skip Jones for informing us that a publisher in New Delhi has reprinted eight of the major volumes of the "Official History of Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War" series. He notes "I have purchased one volume, The Arakan Operations, and it appears to be an exact reprint including the original folding maps." The eight originals have been out of print for many years, becoming almost impossible to locate and dreadfully expensive on those rare occasions when they turn up. Check with Pentagon Press in India for details about purchasing individual books or the set of eight reprints.
Forthcoming from Little Brown Lineberry, Cate. The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines. Forthcoming from Little Brown and Company in May 2013
News from Douglas Stankey Thanks to Doug Stankey for news about volume 2 of Dive-Bomber and Ground-Attack Units of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945, the latest (and apparently final) volume in the excellent Units of the Luftwaffe series. He tells us: "The book was printed and is currently available from Amazon.uk and will become generally available in about a month."
Now available from Grub Street Orange, Vincent. Churchill and His Airmen. London: Grub Street, 2013
Forthcoming from John Murray McKinstry, Leo. Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940. Forthcoming from John Murray Publishers Ltd in October 2013
Now available from Cornell Ward, James Mace. Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013
Now available from Random House Olson, Lynne. Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941. New York: Random House, 2013
Book review Claasen, Adam R. A. Hitler's Northern War: The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001
News from McFarland Our friends in North Carolina tell us they have several WWII items lined up for the next few months:
Forthcoming from Continuum Godfrey, Simon. British Army Communications in the Second World War: Lifting the Fog of Battle. Forthcoming from Continuum in May 2013
Now available from CUP Stahel, David. Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Forthcoming from OUP Reinisch, Jessica. The Perils of Peace: The Public Health Crisis in Occupied Germany. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in May 2013
Forthcoming from History Press Trigg, Jonathan. Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front 1941-44. Forthcoming from The History Press in October 2013
Now available from Kansas Sacquety, Troy J. The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against Japan. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013
Self-Publisher We've added another self-publisher, Elizabeth James Ingham, and her book, I Was One of the Brylcreem Boys, to our Directory of Self-Publishers. If you've self-published a military-related title about World War II, especially if you're a veteran writing about your wartime experiences, please send us information so we can add you to the Directory.
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