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Recommended We've updated our "Recommended Reading" page with the latest titles we believe deserve an extra measure of attention from readers of books about World War II.
Forthcoming from Kansas Ellis, Frank. Barbarossa 1941: Reframing Hitler's Invasion of Stalin's Soviet Empire. Forthcoming from University Press of Kansas in December 2015
Forthcoming from McFarland Newell, Reg. The Battle for Vella Lavella: The Allied Recapture of Solomon Islands Territory, August 15-september 9, 1943. Forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc in December 2015
Book review Fischer, Bernd J. Albania at War, 1939-1945. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1999
Now available from Texas Killebrew, Tom. The Royal Air Force in American Skies: The Seven British Flight Schools in the United States during World War II. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2015
Now available from Exisle Newell, Reg. Pacific Star: 3NZ Division in the South Pacific in World War II. Wollombi NSW: Exisle Publishing, 2015
Forthcoming from Illinois Sica, Emanuele. Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera: Italy's Occupation of France. Forthcoming from University of Illinois Press in December 2015
Forthcoming from Missouri Kurusu, Saburo (edited by J Garry Clifford and Masako Okura). The Desperate Diplomat: Saburo Kurusu's Memoir of the Weeks before Pearl Harbor. Forthcoming from University of Missouri Press in December 2015
Forthcoming from Rochester Yeomans, Rory (editor). The Utopia of Terror: Life and Death in Wartime Croatia. Forthcoming from University of Rochester Press in December 2015
Now available from Yale Kitchen, Martin. Speer: Hitler's Architect. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015
Forthcoming from Illinois Sica, Emanuele. Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera: Italy's Occupation of France. Forthcoming from University of Illinois Press in December 2015
Now available from Osprey Davies, Norman. Trail of Hope: How the Anders Army Escaped from Stalin's Empire. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2015
Forthcoming from R and L Woolfe jr, Raymond G. The Doomed Horsemen of Bataan: The Incredible Stand of the 26th Cavalry. Forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield in April 2016
Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Devine, L. P. The British Way of War in Northwest Europe, 1944-5: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in December 2015
Now available from Belknap Drake, David. Paris at War, 1939-1944. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2015
Forthcoming from Lexington Zhu, Pingchao. Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938-1944: A City at War. Forthcoming from Lexington Books in December 2015
Book review Glantz, David M. Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999
News from Solihull The team at Helion tells us they have over the last week released three new titles, including a new item from Mark Yerger and two volumes which appear to be fresh editions of old HMSO Naval Staff histories:
Forthcoming from Haynes Howlett, Chris. Boeing B-29 Superfortress: Owners' Workshop Manual. Forthcoming from Haynes Publishing in December 2015
Now available from Casemate Clancy, John. The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2015
Forthcoming from OUP Kaminski, Theresa. Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in December 2015
Now available from NAL Moore, Stephen L. The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal. New York: New American Library, 2015
Forthcoming from Collins Miner, Steven Merritt. The Furies Unleashed: The Soviet Peoples at War 1941-1945. Forthcoming from Collins in March 2016
Now available from National Geo Groom, Winston. The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2015
Book review Stevens, David. U-Boat Far from Home: The Epic Voyage of U-862 to Australia and New Zealand. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997
Forthcoming from Nimble Lundgren, Robert. Battleship Victory: Principles of Sea Power in the War in the Pacific. Forthcoming from Nimble Books in December 2015
MHB "Catalogue Code QS" for Autumn 2015 has arrived here from The Military History Bookshop in Folkestone with a lovely assortment of titles for sale.
Now available from Washington Kawamura, Noriko. Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015
Forthcoming from Bantam Holland, James. Cornered Tigers: The Defence of the Admin Box, Burma 1944. Forthcoming from Bantam in February 2016
Forthcoming from UPK Yamashita, Samuel Hideo. Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945. Forthcoming from University Press of Kansas in December 2015
Now available from Viking Dimbleby, Jonathan. The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. London: Viking, 2015
Forthcoming from NIP Wenger, J. Michael, Robert J. Cressman, John F. Di Virgilio. No One Avoided Danger: NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in December 2015
News from McFarland From North Carolina we've received copies of two new titles:
Now available from Casemate Harmsen, Peter. Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2015
Book review Kursietis, Andris J. The Wehrmacht at War, 1939-1945: The Units and Commanders of the German Ground Forces during World War II. Soesterberg, The Netherlands: Aspekt, 1999
War Diary Today seems like a good day to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 62,000 entries—and growing—with 8 November 1942 standing out as a fairly important date.
Forthcoming from TD Jennings, Christian. At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45. Forthcoming from Thomas Dunne Books in February 2016
News from Kentucky In addition to the recently released Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life and Committed to Victory: The Kentucky Home Front during World War II, University Press of Kentucky has these titles lined up for publication:
Forthcoming from NAL Prados, John. Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy. Forthcoming from New American Library in July 2016
May we recommend. . . . We've updated our Recommended Reading page with titles we think deserve extra attention from readers of books about World War II.
Forthcoming from Pegasus Barr, Niall. Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II. Forthcoming from Pegasus Books in December 2015
In memoriam Thomas Blatt—who was born in Poland, imprisoned at Sobibor, escaped in 1943, survived the war, and subsequently wrote Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt: A Survivor's Report—died in California on 31 October at the age of 88.
Cadman Printed "Catalogue #143" from T. Cadman WW2 Books has arrived here by hand of our mail carrier, with 27 page of new and used WWII titles for sale.
Now available from Bodley Snyder, Timothy. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. London: Bodley Head, 2015
Now available from Casemate Prefer, Nathan N. Eisenhowers Thorn on the Rhine: The Battles for the Colmar Pocket, 1944-45. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2015
Forthcoming from Routledge Kaminsky, Arnold P. Propaganda and Political Warfare in South Asia: India and Anglo-American Relations during WWII. Forthcoming from Routledge in May 2016
Book review Natter, Henri and Adam Refregier, translated and edited by Jacqueline Vautrain Collins. Five Years Behind Hitler's Barbed Wire: A Diary of French Officers in a German Prison Camp, 1940-1945. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2015
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