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News archive for December 2017
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Book review Rolf, David. The Bloody Road to Tunis: Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa: November 1942 - May 1943. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001
Forthcoming from Johns Hopkins Crim, Brian E. Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State. Forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press in January 2018
Forthcoming from Encounter Richman, Rick. Racing against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler. Forthcoming from Encounter Books in January 2018
Now available from Hellgate Sleger, Paul. One Lucky Combat Infantryman: A Memoir of WWII. Central Point, OR: Hellgate Press, 2017
In memoriam Ramon Regalado—who served in the Philippine Scouts and survived the Bataan Death March in 1942—died in California on 16 December at the age of 100.
Forthcoming from Fonthill Williams, Max. SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard, volume 3. Forthcoming from Fonthill Media Limited in January 2018
Now available from TAMU Cutrer, Thomas W. and T. Michael Parrish. Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2017
Now available from McFarland Ben-Zvi, Hava Bromberg. We Who Lived: Two Teenagers in World War II Poland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2017
Now available from CUP Makepeace, Clare. Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Forthcoming from Fonthill Estes, Kenneith W. German Heavy Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War: From Tiger to E-100. Forthcoming from Fonthill Media Limited in January 2018
Now available from Casemate Jephson, F.R. and Chris Jephson. The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017
Holiday Wish List Yes, we already have too many books, but yes, we want more. Here's our Holiday Wish List.
Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press Russell, David Lee. The War Begins: The Navy's Early Carrier Raids, February-May 1942. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in June 2018
Now available from Crecy Goss, Chris. Focke-Wulf Fw200: The Condor at War 1939-1945. Manchester, UK: Crecy Publishing Ltd, 2017
News from the sea As predicted, World War II Sea War, volume 11: Bougainville, Tarawa and Cape Gloucester is now available from Bertke Publications via Lulu.com, with the latter currently offering a discount on printed editions.
News from the city of Stalin Author Anton Joly tells us all four current volumes of his award-winning Stalingrad Battle Atlas series have been updated with revised editions in 2017, but volume five, the last in the series, is not yet on the horizon.
Subject matters
Looking for books on a particular wartime subject? Our Stone & Stone bibliographies contain more than 5000 individual WWII topics on file, all completely cross-referenced with links to related subjects, and each one packed with relevant books. You can also use the "Quick-Finder" feature in the upper left of any of our pages (select "subject" from the pop-up menu) to search for specific topics. For an example of our bibliographies, take a look at our page for Russian Front maps.
Now available from Helion Goodchild, Peter. A Most Enigmatic War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017
Now available from Routledge Roy, Kaushik. Tropical Warfare in the Asia Pacific Region, 1941-45. London: Routledge, 2017
Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Trachtenberg, Barry. The United States and the Nazi Holocaust. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in January 2018
Senshi Sosho The Corts Foundation—responsible for the translation, editing, and preparation of the text and maps—tells us volume 26 of the Japanese Senshi Sosho series has been slightly delayed, but it should be available from Leiden University Press in April or May 2018 as The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal. Also, "The board of our foundation decided to conclude the Senshi Sosho project with an air force volume. The [Japanese] National Institute of Defense Studies granted us the copyright to publish a third volume with parts of volumes 5 and 34. This involves the air force and also the operations of the Japanese 16th Army at Sumatra."
Book review Forczyk, Robert. Case Red: The Collapse of France, 1940. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2017
News from the Netherlands Jack Didden reports that De Zwaardvisch has tentatively decided to reprint Autumn Gale. This would be a very small print run and unavailable from the usual sources, so those with an interest in the book should contact De Zwaardvisch directly. In addition, Jack has begun preliminary work on a new book about the retreat of German 15th Army in 1944. It's not expected to be available before summer 2019 at the earliest.
Now available from NIP Schaeffer, Heinz. U-Boat 977: The Third Reich U-boat That Escaped to Argentina. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2017
In memoriam Henry Morito Tsuchiya of San Francisco—who was interned at Heart Mountain with his parents from 1942 until 1945—passed away on 1 December in California at the age of 94.
Now available from Casemate Radzilowski, John and Jerzy Szczesniak. Frantic 7: The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017
Forthcoming from Skyhorse Oliver, Dennis. Death Ride of the Panzers: German Armor and the Retreat in the West, 1944-45. Forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing in January 2018
FDR → HST, part 1: Now available from Basic Woolner, David B. The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace. New York: Basic Books, 2017
FDR → HST, part 2: Now available from HM Baime, A. J. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2017
Recommended With so many superlative new releases in the final weeks of the year, we've updated our Recommended Reading page again to reflect our latest choices in books we believe deserve an extra measure of attention.
Leaping Panzers: News from Australia It was delayed for a few months, but it's now available, and it looks like it might be one of the best new releases of the year. Leaping Horseman Books is now shipping Panzerkrieg: German Armoured Operations at Stalingrad, volume 1: Panzer-Abteilungen 103, 129 and 160 by Jason Mark.
Forthcoming from NewSouth Haulman, Daniel L. The Tuskegee Airmen Chronology: A Detailed Timeline of the Red Tails and Other Black Pilots of World War. Forthcoming from NewSouth Books in January 2018
In memoriam Andrew Stanley Leong—who served as a B-26 bomber crewman in WWII, served again in Korea, and ultimately retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel—passed away on 24 November in California at the age of 95.
Now available from Tauris Peakman, Julie. Hitler's Island War: The Men Who Fought for Leros. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017
Forthcoming from Allen Lane Todman, Daniel. Britain's War, volume 2: A New World, 1942-1947. Forthcoming from Allen Lane in January 2018
Now available from Amberley O'Connor, Bernard. Operation Lena and Hitler's Plots to Blow Up Britain. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2017
Now available from Regnery Chapman, Craig S. Battle Hardened: An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2017
Now available from Helion Cherry, Niall. Doomed before the Start: The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940, Volume 2: Evacuation and Further Naval Operations. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 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 7 December 1941 standing out as a fairly important date.
Now available from North Carolina Chopas, Mary Elizabeth Basile. Searching for Subversives: The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017
Forthcoming from National University of Singapore Press Huff, Gregg and Shinobu Majima (editors). World War II Singapore: The Chosabu Reports on Syonan. Forthcoming from National University of Singapore Press in January 2018
In memoriam Dino J. Ruggeri—who served as a gunner on B-29s in the central Pacific during the war—passed away on 28 November in California at the age of 97.
You say Wolchow, I say Volkhov Brian Burmeister, publisher of The Battle of the Wolchow Kessel in Primary German Documents, volume I: The XXXVIII Armee Korps in the Battle of the Wolchow Kessel, emailed us an update on his next release: "Nothing new to report in regards to Volume II. The reports for Volume II are about 90% done, but I am waiting patiently to sell more copies of Volume I and the map sets before we finish with Volume II."
Now available from McFarland Newell, Reg. Operation Squarepeg: The Allied Invasion of the Green Islands, February 1944. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2017
Forthcoming from OUP Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in May 2018
News from Bertke Publications Donald Bertke sends along this news about the World War II Sea War series: "Volume 11 is in the last throes of editing and should make it out in December."
Now available from Helion Rivas, Santiago. Brazilians at War: Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2017
Forthcoming from Pegasus Lyman, Robert. Under a Darkening Sky: Americans in Hitler's Europe, 1939-1941. Forthcoming from Pegasus Books in January 2018
Book review Heidkamper, Otto. Vitebsk: The Fight and Destruction of the Third Panzer Army. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017
Now available from Liveright Korda, Michael. Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory. New York: Liveright Publishing, 2017
Forthcoming from Earnshaw Smithback, John Bell. Asia Betrayed: How Churchill Sacrificed the Far East to Save England. Forthcoming from Earnshaw Books Limited in January 2018
Now available from Osprey Forczyk, Robert. Case Red: The Collapse of France, 1940. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2017
Now available from Stackpole Katz, David. South Africans vs. Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2017
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