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Forthcoming from Osprey Lardas, Mark. Truk 1944–45: The Destruction of Japan's Central Pacific Bastion. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in December 2021
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 30 November 1939 standing out as an important date.
Now available from Texas Bielakowski, Alexander. Proud Warriors: African American Combat Units in World War II. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2021
In memoriam Rossana Banti—who served with Italian anti-Fascist partisans and later the British SOE—died in Italy on 4 October at the age of 96.
Soviet Foreign Policy Translated editions of the Soviet collection of documents and materials regarding foreign policy from 22 June 1941 through the end of December 1944—originally published in 1946—are now available. Probably a wise decision to exclude Soviet foreign policy leading up to June 1941.
Forthcoming from Allen Lane Kochanski, Halik. Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945. Forthcoming from Allen Lane in March 2022
Now available from Osprey Lyman, Robert. A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2021
French 1st Army The best history of the French 1st Army in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945 is the book written by its commanding general, but it's not easy to locate a copy of the 1952 English edition. Fortunately, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's classic The History of the French First Army has now been reprinted by Routledge.
Forthcoming from Toronto Nunez Seixas, Xose. The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945: War, Occupation, Memory. Forthcoming from University of Toronto Press in May 2022
Now available from Air World Ridley, Norman. The Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Britain. Barnsley, UK: Air World / Pen & Sword Books, 2021
Forthcoming from Helion Wheale, Andrew. Ham & Jam: 6th Airborne Division in Normandy: Generating Combat Effectiveness: November 1942 - September 1944. Forthcoming from Helion & Company in April 2022
Now available from Lyons Lloyd, Keith Warren. Avenging Pearl Harbor: The Saga of America's Battleships in the Pacific War. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2021
Book review Carr, John. On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2012
News from Oz Depending on shipping issues (does "supply chain" ring a bell?), Guderian's Foxes: Aufklarungs-Abteilung 29 in Photos from Barbarossa to Typhoon should be available from Leaping Horseman by the end of this month or early next.
Forthcoming from OUP Moore, Bob. Prisoners of War: Europe, 1939-1955. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in June 2022
In memoriam Larry Petretti—who served aboard USS Whitney when Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7 December 1941—died on 13 November in California at the age of 98.
Now available from Purdue Markiewicz, Pawel. Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Grimnes, Ole Kristian. Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September 2022
Forthcoming from Casemate Sorley, Lewis. Gavin at War: The World War II Diary of Lieutenant General James M. Gavin. Forthcoming from Casemate in January 2022
News from Poland We recently discovered the Mussolini's War series of books from Poland. Written and self-published by Marek Sobski, these titles—two so far—are researched largely in Italian sources, written in Polish, and translated into English. East Africa 1940-1941 Land Campaign: The Italian Army Defends the Empire in the Horn of Africa was published last year and Mussolini's Eastern Crusade: The Italian Expeditionary Corps in Operation Barbarossa two months ago. Next on the list? A volume covering the campaign on the Italian-French border in 1940. Definitely worth a look for anyone interested in Italian forces and operations.
Book review Majd, Mohammad Gholi. August 1941: The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012
Now available from Osprey Stille, Mark. The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2021
Now available from Greenhill Bork, Bruno. StuG III Brigade 191, 1940-1945: The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to Kursk and Sevastopol. Barnsley, UK: Greenhill Books / Pen & Sword, 2021
Forthcoming from Constable MacGregor, Iain. The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII's Greatest Battle. Forthcoming from Constable in October 2022
Now available from Red Kite / WingLeader Parry, Simon. Battle of Britain Combat Archive, volume 11: 7 September - 8 September 1940. Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2021
Now available from Dutton McManus, John C. Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944. New York: Dutton Books, 2021
News from Harvard Harvard University Press has released When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael Neiberg, but Neptune's Admiral: The Life of Sir Bertram Ramsay, Commander of Dunkirk and D-Day by Andrew Gordon has been postponed until spring 2023.
Now available from Berlin Heinemann, Winfried. Operation Valkyrie: A Military History of the 20 July 1944 Plot. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021
Delayed According to University of Missouri Press, Patton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership, Volume I: November 1942-July 1944 by Kevin Hymel will be available next month instead of this month.
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 8 November 1942 standing out as an important date.
Book review
Edele, Mark.
Abandoned
William McCroden, co-author with Thomas Nutter of German Ground Forces of World War II, notified us that the two authors have abandoned their German Divisions of World War II project. "We don't think we have the time left or energy to attempt it."
Forthcoming from Stanford
Boum, Aomar and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (editors). Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950. Forthcoming from Stanford University Press in July 2022
Another slight delay
Sea of Blood: A Military History of the Partisan Movement in Yugoslavia 1941-45 by Gaj Trifkovic has been slightly delayed again. Helion expects it to become available next month.
Now available from Ibidem Press
Blood, Phillip W. Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2021
World War II Sea War
The World War II Sea War series from Donald Bertke and associates was finally concluded with volume 17 earlier this year. Now the team is adding "updates and corrections" volumes. The next one, volume 19, will cover March 1941 through December 1941 and is scheduled for publication early next year. We're told in upcoming volumes the additional material for each month—just the additional material—will exceed all the material originally published for that month in volume 5. (December 1941 through March 1942.) "I have collected a huge amount of Japanese ship data that arrived too late to get into the early volumes, so you now get an even better understanding of the Japanese ship movements as they rapidly took over the Dutch East Indies, the Solomon Islands, and New Guinea. I also found more US, New Zealand, Royal Navy, German U-boat, and Royal Indian Navy updates. These 'update and correction' volumes will greatly fill in data missing from many of these early volumes."
Forthcoming from P & S
Domagalski, John J. Escape from Java: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the USS Marblehead. Forthcoming from Pen & Sword Books Ltd in May 2022
News from IHRA
Edward Rogers tells us Harvest of the Grim Reapers: The Illustrated History of the 3rd and 27th Bombardment Groups during World War II, volume I: Prewar - December 1942 from International Historical Research Associates is on the way:
"I am pleased to report that the manuscript for volume I of the 3rd & 27th BG history has been uploaded to the webserver of our printing company. Hopefully in about 10 days we will have a date for the delivery of the printed & bound books."
Forthcoming from Yale
Kennedy, Paul. Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in April 2022
Cadman
"Catalogue #179" arrived here from T. Cadman WW2 Books. As usual, plenty of desirable WWII titles filling the pages. Unfortunately, Tom seems not to have a website these days.
News from Mark Reardon
Mark sends this update about his upcoming The USAAF in North Africa (working title):
"I completed drafts of the introduction and prologue as of the last week of October 2021. The former explains my motivation for writing the book as well as my methodology when it comes to determining aerial combat results. The latter provides readers with an overview of the four air forces that fought in Tunisia, with emphasis on the USAAF, how it operated with the RAF, and how it fared against the Luftwaffe and to a lesser extent the Regia Aeronautica. I will start the first of the core narrative chapters before Christmas 2021. That particular chapter will set the strategic scene, deal with the planning and execution of the Allied TORCH landings in North Africa on 8 November 1942, and detail the evolving deployment/redeployment of RAF, USAAF, Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica forces in theater. My working core narrative outline as currently envisioned has a total of seventeen chapters, some of which will cover action in Libya where the Ninth Air Force provided support to General Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army and Air Marshal Coningham's Western Desert Air Force (WDAF). Interestingly, BOTH the Ninth Air Force and Twelfth Air Force rendered support to the British in Libya, in large part because the fundamentally tactical nature of the WDAF and limited range of Supermarine Spitfires. As a result, USAAF P-38s were taking off from Algeria, flying across Tunisia, and strafing retreating Afrika Korps columns in western Libya! There were RAF Halifaxes and Liberators in theater, but the Air Staff in London initiated the process of transferring them to other theaters once they realized that the USAAF would strike targets of interest to the British."
Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first years of Stone & Stone:
Brongers, E.H. The Battle for The Hague, 1940. Soesterberg: Aspekt, 2004
Now available from Toronto
English, John A. Monty and the Canadian Army. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021
News from Osprey
Ray from Osprey sent us this updated list of new WWII titles due this month:
Tucker-Jones, Anthony. Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in November 2021
Recommendations
Today we updated our Recommended Reading page. That's where you can find our list of books we think deserve an extra measure of attention.
Book review
Nevenkin, Kamen. Take Budapest: The Struggle for Hungary, Autumn 1944. Stroud, UK: Spellmount, 2012
Forthcoming from Routledge
De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean. The History of the French First Army. Forthcoming from Routledge in November 2021
Now available from P&S
Donnell, Clayton. Eben-Emael and the Defence of Fortress Belgium, 1940. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2021
Forthcoming from Dutton
McManus, John C. Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944. Forthcoming from Dutton Books in November 2021
Now available from Yale
Kay, Alex J. Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Ohio
Tembo, Alfred. War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939-1953. Forthcoming from Ohio University Press in November 2021
Forthcoming from Purdue
Markiewicz, Pawel. Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II. Forthcoming from Purdue University Press in November 2021
Now available from Fonthill
Morisi, Paolo. Panzersoldaten: Italian Blackshirt Division of the Eastern Front 1941-1943. Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media Limited, 2021
Forthcoming from MMP
Picarella, Giuseppe. Mitsubishi Babs, volume 1: The World's First High-Speed Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft. Forthcoming from MMP Books in April 2022
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 25 October 1944 standing out as an important date.
Book review
Shores, Christopher et al. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume five: From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War, 1944-1945. London: Grub Street, 2021
Forthcoming from Hikoki
Flintham, Vic. Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean, volume 2: Sicily to Victory in Italy, 1943-1945. Forthcoming from Hikoki Publications in April 2022
Forthcoming from Casemate
Webb, James Jack. Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich: For Country or Fuehrer, volume 1. Forthcoming from Casemate in May 2022
Four years
When we first heard about Eagle and Iron Cross: American and German Combat Effectiveness in World War II by Thomas E. Nutter, it was scheduled for publication in April 2018. The latest word from McFarland & Company? April 2022.
Forthcoming from Red Kite
Parry, Simon. Battle of Britain Combat Archive, volume 11: 7 September - 8 September 1940. Forthcoming from Red Kite in November 2021
Recommended
Our Recommended Reading page is where you can find our list of books we think deserve an extra measure of attention, and we've updated that list today.
Now available from Viking
Bishop, Patrick. Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice. London: Viking, 2021
Forthcoming from McFarland
Kloda, Samuel S. The Atomic Bomb in Images and Documents: The Manhattan Project and the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc in February 2022
Now available from NIP
Stillwell, Paul. Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Casemate
Hayn, Friedrich. Normandy: From Cotentin to Falaise, June-July 1944. Forthcoming from Casemate in March 2022
Now available from Cornell
Lohse, Alexandra. Prevail Until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Missouri
Hymel, Kevin. Patton's War: An American General's Combat Leadership, Volume I: November 1942-July 1944. Forthcoming from University of Missouri Press in November 2021
Now available from P&S
Green, Michael. United States Tanks and Tank Destroyers of the Second World War. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2021
Forthcoming from Kagero
Mujzer, Peter. Barbarossa Campaign in 1941: Hungarian Perspective. Forthcoming from Kagero Publishing in December 2021
News from Christer Bergstrom
News has been forwarded to us—thanks!—that Christer Bergstrom's Black Cross, Red Star: The Air War over the Eastern Front, volume 1: Operation Barbarossa is now available, although it's likely to be at least a month before it shows up in familiar retail channels. This is the revised and expanded edition of the book originally published by Pacifica Military History in 2000.
Book review
Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello with R. Guest. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume one: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942. London: Grub Street, 2012
Now available from Helion
Barnes, Barrie S. The Bloody Road to Catania: A History of XIII Corps in Sicily, 1943. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2021
Now available from Frontline
Boer, Sjoerd J de. Escaping Hitler's Bunker: The Fate of the Third Reich's Leaders. Barnsley, UK: Frontline / Pen & Sword, 2021
Forthcoming from Greenhill
Eberhard, Baumgart. The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron. Forthcoming from Greenhill Books in March 2022
Forthcoming from OUP
Caddick-Adams, Patrick. Fire and Steel: The End of World War Two in the West. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in July 2022
News from Osprey
Ray at Osprey kindly reminded us of new titles scheduled for publication this month and next, including these:
Forthcoming from Helion
Riccio, Ralph and Massimiliano Afiero. Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943. Forthcoming from Helion & Company in May 2022
Now available from Casemate
Harmsen, Peter. Asian Armageddon, 1944-45. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2021
Now available from M-Q
Sutzkever, Abraham. From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg. Kingston, Canada: McGill-Queens University, 2021
Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first years of Stone & Stone:
Balkoski, Joseph. Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004
Now available from NIP
Taaffe, Stephen R. Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Casemate
Kolakowski, Christopher L. Nations in the Balance: The India-Burma Campaigns, December 1943-August 1944. Forthcoming from Casemate in April 2022
Now available from Grub Street
The long-awaited fifth volume—from the fall of Rome to the end of the war, 1944-1945—of the Mediterranean Air War series by Christopher Shores and his team is now available in the UK, with availability elsewhere to follow:
Shores, Christopher et al. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume five. London: Grub Street, 2021
Now available from Tauris
Wichhart, Stefanie. Britain, Egypt and Iraq During World War II: The Decline of Imperial Power in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2021
Book review
Eichholtz, Dietrich. War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire. Washington, DC: Potomac Books Inc, 2012
Forthcoming from Osprey
Zaloga, Steve. Smashing Hitler's Guns: The Rangers at Pointe-du-Hoc, D-Day 1944. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in May 2022
Now available from Bloomsbury
Edele, Mark. Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II. London: Bloomsbury, 2021
Forthcoming from Dutton
Moore, Stephen L. Patton's Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton's Rise to Glory. Forthcoming from Dutton Calibre in May 2022
Bookjackers
Anyone who has been purchasing secondhand books online (and paying attention) is well aware the process has been infected over the years by a growing number of predatory "booksellers" who scam, overcharge, and fail to deliver as promised. Here's an article explaining the bookjacker phenomenon, and how to avoid being scammed:
Bookjackers explained by Zubal Books (Link opens in new window/tab)
Caveat emptor.
News from Mark Stille
Mark kindly reminded us he has three new books scheduled for publication by Osprey before the end of the year:
Now available from Bloomsbury
Stoltzfus, Nathan et al. Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis. London: Bloomsbury, 2021
Forthcoming from Casemate
Walter, Brian E. The Blue Water War: The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940-1945. Forthcoming from Casemate in April 2022
Book review
Goldman, Stuart D. Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012
Now available from Dutton
Dugard, Martin. Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights. New York: Dutton Books, 2021
News from Helion
Our friends at Solihull provided information on a couple of their new titles.
First, one available right now:
Maslov, Mikhail. King of Fighters: Nikolay Polikarpov and His Aircraft Designs Volume 2: The Monoplane Era. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2021
Next, one delayed from this month until November:
Trifkovic, Gaj. Sea of Blood: A Military History of the Partisan Movement in Yugoslavia 1941-45. Forthcoming from Helion & Company in November 2021
Now available from Allen Lane
Ullrich, Volker. Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended. London: Allen Lane, 2021
Happy birthday
Or happy anniversary. Or something like that.
On 15 September 1995 we posted our first tidbit about WWII-related books, a brief note about new offerings from the Military History Book Club. That was twenty-six years ago.
Much has changed since then—in the publishing industry and in our hardware and software—but almost every day we've added another tidbit or two about WWII-related books. Take a look at our archives from 1995 through 2021 if you want to see how we've evolved over the years.
We offer thanks to all the authors, publishers, editors, booksellers, and visitors who have helped us with this site during our first twenty-six years, and we look forward to providing daily doses of news and information about WWII-related books for many more years.
Now available from P&S
Storey, Neil R. Britain's Coast at War: Invasion Threat, Coastal Forces, Bombardment and Training for D-Day. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2021
Now available from Casemate Forty, Simon, Patrick Hook, and Nik Cornish. Red Army into the Reich. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2021
Cadman
Hand-delivered by our postman, all 28 pages of "Catalogue #178" arrived here safely from T. Cadman WW2 Books.
Book review
Degtev, Dmitry and Dmitry Zubov. Hitler's Strategic Bombing Offensive on the Eastern Front: Blitz Over the Volga, 1943. Barnsley, UK: Air World / Pen & Sword Books, 2021
Forthcoming from Rienner
Lauer, G. Stephen. Forging the Anvil: Combat Units in the US, British, and German Infantries of World War II. Forthcoming from Lynne Rienner Publishers in December 2021
Forthcoming from OUP
Symonds, Craig L. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in June 2022
Recommended
Our Recommended Reading page is where you can find our list of books we think deserve an extra measure of attention, and we've updated it today.
Forthcoming from NIP
Hamilton, A. Stephan. Knight of the North Atlantic: Baron Siegfried von Forstner and the War Patrols of U-401, 1941-1943. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in May 2022
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 9 September 1943 standing out as an important date.
News from Leaping Horseman
Jason Mark has announced his next book,
Guderian's Foxes: Aufklarungs-Abteilung 29 in Photos from Barbarossa to Typhoon, is available for pre-pub orders. Expect this title to be back from the printer in November or December.
Now available from Osprey
Hart, Stephen A. and Russell Hart (editors). Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2021
Forthcoming from Stackpole
Peacock, Amy Rupertus and Dan Brown. Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliu. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in December 2021
Now available from ATB
Ramsey, Winston and Jean Paul Pallud. German Coastal Radar Stations Then and Now. London: After the Battle, 2021
Forthcoming from Viking
Bishop, Patrick. Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and The Sacrifice. Forthcoming from Viking in October 2021
Now available from Bertke
Bertke, Donald A. et al. World War II Sea War, volume 18: Updates and Corrections, August 1939 - February 1941. Dayton, OH: Bertke Publications, 2021
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 2 September 1945 standing out as an important date.
Now available from Casemate
Bauernfeind, Ingo. U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939-45. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2021
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 1 September 1939 standing out as an important date.
Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first years of Stone & Stone:
Brune, Peter. A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2003
Forthcoming from NIP
Taaffe, Stephen R. Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in September 2021
Now available from Regnery
Avriett, Carole Engle. Marine Raiders: The True Story of the Legendary WWII Battalions. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2021
Forthcoming from Grub Street
Shores, Christopher et al. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume five. Forthcoming from Grub Street in September 2021
In memoriam
Donald Edmon—who flew 33 combat missions over Europe with the 8th Air Force as a B-17 waist gunner—died on 18 August in New York at the age of 96.
Book review
Lambert, John G. USS Independence CVL-22: A War Diary of the Nation's First Dedicated Night Carrier. Conway, AR: John G. Lambert, 2021
Forthcoming from Helion
Trifkovic, Gaj. Sea of Blood: A Military History of the Partisan Movement in Yugoslavia 1941-45. Forthcoming from Helion & Company in September 2021
Forthcoming from Bloomsbury
Edele, Mark. Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September 2021
Now available in the UK
Overy, Richard. Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945. London: Allen Lane, 2021.
The US edition is scheduled for publication in April 2022.
Forthcoming from Toronto
English, John A. Monty and the Canadian Army. Forthcoming from University of Toronto Press in November 2021
Now available from NIP
Warner, Guy. Atlantic Linchpin: The Azores in Two World Wars. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Barbreck
Spicer, Tim. A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea. Forthcoming from Barbreck Publishers in September 2021
Book review
Reardon, Mark J. (editor). Defending Fortress Europe: The War Diary of the German 7th Army in Normandy, 6 June to 26 July 1944. Bedford, PA: Aberjona Press, 2012
Now available from Viking
Brown, Daniel James. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II. New York: Viking, 2021
Now available from P&S
Saunders, Tim. Battle for the Bocage, Normandy 1944: Point 103, Tilly-sur-Seulles and Villers Bocage. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2021
Now available from Casemate
Danby, Jeff. Men of Armor: The History of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in World War II, part 1: Beginnings, North Africa, and Italy. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2021
Now available from Griffon
Anonymous. The Mighty Eighth: A Glimpse of the Men and Machines of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, 1942-45. Wendover, Buckinghamshire: Griffon International, 2021
Now available from Manchester
Garner, Karen. Friends and Enemies: The Allies and Neutral Ireland in the Second World War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2021
In memoriam
From Edward Rogers: "It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of my colleague Larry Hickey who passed away on Saturday, August 14th at his home in Boulder, Colorado. He was an aviation historian and publisher who dedicated the past forty years of his life to researching and publishing the history of the air war in the Southwest Pacific. His first publication was the landmark 1984 book, Warpath Across the Pacific: The Illustrated History of the 345th Bombardment Group.
"Larry's staff at IHRA and myself are busy finalizing volume one of the history of the 3rd BG & 27th BG in WWII (1941-1942).
"I will forward his obituary once it becomes available."
Now available from Routledge
Henry, Alexander. War Through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943. London: Routledge, 2021
Forthcoming from Dutton
Dugard, Martin. Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights. Forthcoming from Dutton Books in September 2021
Book review
Terzic, Velimir. Slom Kraljevine Jugoslavije 1941, volume 1. Beograd: Partizanska Knjiga, 1984
Terzic, Velimir. Slom Kraljevine Jugoslavije 1941, volume 2. Beograd: Partizanska Knjiga, 1984
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 15 August 1945 standing out as an important date.
Now available from Bloomsbury
Raffal, Harry. Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk: The RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo, 26 May - 4 June 1940. London: Bloomsbury, 2021
Forthcoming from Avonmore
Claringbould, Michael and Peter Ingman. South Pacific Air War, volume 5: Crisis in Papua September - December 1942. Forthcoming from Avonmore Books in February 2022
Now available from OUP
Kornicki, Peter. Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021
News from Solihull
According to the latest communique from Helion, two new books are now available:
Forthcoming from Stackpole
Aldrich, Edward Farley. The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in April 2022
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 9 August 1945 standing out as an important date.
Book review
Nipe, George M. Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II.SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka. Stamford, CT: RZM Publishing, 2011
Now available from North Texas Press
Cook, Lee. Dirty Eddie's War: Based on the World War II Diary of Harry 'Dirty Eddie' March Jr, Pacific Fighter Ace. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2021
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 7 August 1942 standing out as an important date.
In memoriam
Dave Severance—who joined the US Marines in 1938, commanded the company that twice raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, and later flew 70 combat missions as an aviator during the Korean War—died on 2 August in California at the age of 102.
Forthcoming from Allen Lane
Ullrich, Volker. Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended. Forthcoming from Allen Lane in September 2021
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 64,000 entries and growing, with 6 August 1945 standing out as an important date.
Now available from St Martin's
Ronald, Susan. The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940. New York: St Martin's Press, 2021
Forthcoming from Kentucky
Dworak, David D. War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean. Forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in May 2022
News from Walton on Thames
The folks at Wing Leader / Red Kite confirm that their newest titles are now in stock:
Now available from Nebraska
Schmitz, John E. Enemies Among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021
Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first years of Stone & Stone:
Glantz, David. August Storm, volume 1: The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
Glantz, David. August Storm, volume 2: Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
Book review
Stephenson, Charles. Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, 1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2021
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