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Book review Dingman, Roger. Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa Maru and Japanese American Relations, 1945-1995. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997
Recommended Thanks to the arrival of a new must-have title, we've updated our Recommended Reading page, which is where we display books we think deserve an extra measure of attention.
Forthcoming from P & S Caravaggio, Angelo. 21 Days in Normandy: Maj. Gen. George Kitching and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. Forthcoming from Pen & Sword Books Ltd in August 2016
Forthcoming from Tauris Wichhart, Stefanie. Britain, Egypt and Iraq During World War II: The Decline of Imperial Power in the Middle East. Forthcoming from I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in November 2016
News from Spain Abteilung 502 of Logrono, Spain, seems to specialize in paints and brushes for modeling, but they have now published a book about Panther tanks, distributed in the US by Stevens International: Macdougall, Roddy and Martin Block. Panther: External Appearance & Design Changes. Logrono, Spain: Abteilung 502, 2016
Now available from Kentucky Higham, Robin and Stephen J. Harris (editors). Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. (Revised and expanded edition)
Forthcoming from Exisle Robinson, Stephen. False Flags: Disguised German Raiders of World War II. Forthcoming from Exisle Publishing in August 2016
Now available from OUP Dallek, Matthew. Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
Forthcoming from Amberley Hooiveld, Jelle. Dutch Courage: Special Forces in the Netherlands 1944-45. Forthcoming from Amberley Publishing in August 2016
Forthcoming from Casemate Van Lunteren, Frank. Spearhead of the Fifth Army: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio. Forthcoming from Casemate in November 2016
News from McFarland Our friends at McFarland in North Carolina remain busy, with two new WWII titles hitting the shelves:
Now available from Stackpole Hallas, James H. Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima: The Story of the Medal of Honor Winners in the Marine Corps' Bloodiest Battle of World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2016
Forthcoming from Routledge Jones, Kevin. Intelligence, Command and Military Operations: The Eighth Army Campaign in Italy, 1943-45. Forthcoming from Routledge in December 2016
Book review Urwin, Gregory J. W. Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997
News from Helion The team in Solihull has released two new WWII titles:
Check our Helion page for more information about titles on their publication schedule.
Now available from Murray Milton, Giles. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill's Mavericks: Plotting Hitler's Defeat. London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2016
Forthcoming from Chartwell Chasseaud, Peter. Mapping the Second World War: The History of the War through Maps from 1939 to 1945. Forthcoming from Chartwell in August 2016
News from SB Savas Beatie continues to project a publication date sometime this fall for the long-awaited German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 by William T. McCroden and Thomas Nutter.
Now available from Kansas Rigg, Bryan Mark. The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers: Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn and His Astonishing Rescue. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2016
Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Wheatley, Ben. British Intelligence and Hitler's Empire in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in January 2017
War Diary reminder This seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone about our detailed day-by-day chronicle of the Second World War, now amounting to more than 63,000 entries and growing, with 20 July 1944 standing out as a fairly important date.
Forthcoming from Stackpole Baumer, Robert W. Old Hickory: The American 30th Infantry Division in World War II. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in August 2016
Now available from NAL Prados, John. Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy. New York: New American Library, 2016
Forthcoming from CUP Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in August 2016
Now available from Yale Shepherd, Ben. Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016
Now available from Missouri Alvarez, Jose E. The Spanish Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2016
News from London Despite other changes in the UK, A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume three: Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 by Chris Shores and his team has been released by Grub Street as planned. Availability on the other side of the Atlantic should follow within the next month or two.
Forthcoming from NAL Brady, Tim. His Father's Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.. Forthcoming from New American Library in January 2017
Forthcoming from UBC Press Granatstein, J.L. The Weight of Command. Forthcoming from University of British Columbia Press in August 2016
Cadman We're always pleased to receive catalogs from T. Cadman WW2 Booksfilled as they are with tons of excellent items for saleand the latest, Catalogue #147, is now in our hands.
Now available from Helion Yerger, Mark. Totenkopf: The Structure, Development and Personalities of the 3.SS-Panzer-Division, Volume II. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2016
Now available from Casemate Bergstrom, Christer. Operation Barbarossa 1941: Hitler against Stalin. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2016
Forthcoming from Kansas Glantz, David. The Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army's Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944. Forthcoming from University Press of Kansas in November 2016
Forthcoming from Manchester Tsoutsoumpis, Spiros. A History of the Greek Resistance in the Second World War: The People's Armies. Forthcoming from Manchester University Press in August 2016
News from McFarland McFarland & Company has published two interesting new books about POWs:
Forthcoming from OUP Ball, Simon. Alamein. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in August 2016
Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster Twomey, Steve. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack. Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in November 2016
In memoriam Elie Wiesela Holocaust survivor who went on to write more than fifty books, fight against oppression around the world, and win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986died 2 July in New York at the age of 87.
Now available from Helion Benbow, Tim. Operation Dynamo: The Evacuation from Dunkirk, May-June 1940. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2016
News from Australia Leaping Horseman has announced publication of After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War, the second volume of Adelbert Holl's WWII memoirs, covering his "final hours in Stalingrad, his capture, the march into captivity and his subsequent 7-year odyssey through the Soviet POW system."
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