Now available from Schiffer
30 April 2003

Richards, Guy. World War II Troop Type Parachutes, Allies: U.S., Britain, Russia. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2003

Now available from Dee
30 April 2003

Woodhouse, C. M. The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003

Forthcoming from HarperCollins
29 April 2003

Hirshon, Stanley P. General Patton: A Soldier's Life. Forthcoming from HarperCollins Publishers, Inc in August 2003

Now available from Steerforth
29 April 2003

Norris, Robert S. Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2003

Aardvark
29 April 2003

Check out the online inventory files of Aardvark Books, completely updated today.

Forthcoming from Vintage
28 April 2003

Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. Forthcoming from Vintage Books in August 2003

Now available from Brassey's
28 April 2003

Friedrich, Erich O. and Renate G. Vanegas. Hitler's Prisoners: Seven Cell Mates Tell Their Stories. Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc (US), 2003

Forthcoming from UNC
28 April 2003

Stoler, Mark A. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World Wa. Forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press in August 2003

Jerboa
28 April 2003

Today's mail brings us printed "Supplement #67" from Jerboa-Redcap Books with new and used military, aviation, and naval titles.

Book reviews
27 April 2003

Hewitt, Mike. Uniforms and Equipment of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2002

Palinckx, Werner with J.F. Borsarello. Camouflage Uniforms of the German Wehrmacht. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2002

Michaelis, Rolf. Die Waffen-SS: Uniforms and Insignia. Berlin: Michaelis-Verlag, 2002

Read our reviews

Military Collector
27 April 2003

Ian Wilkinson has updated the inventory files at his Military Collector website with more than 4200 secondhand books, mostly covering World War II.

Progress report
26 April 2003

Our new, multi-dimensional system of categorizing WWII-related books into specific subject areas with links among all related categories remains our top priority these days. We currently have over 9100 titles divided into more than 2500 inter-connected subjects, and both those numbers grow every day.

News from Christer Bergstrom
26 April 2003

Many thanks to Christer Bergstrom for sending along news about his latest projects. Here's an abridged version:

"In June 2003, I will publish my next book: Graf and Grislawski: A Pair of Aces at Eagle Editions....

"I have changed publishers, and that this has caused some delays. But now it is official: Volume 3 of Black Cross/Red Star will be published by Eagle Editions in...the Fall of 2003."

For further details, check our webpage for Mr. Bergstrom.

Forthcoming from OUP
25 April 2003

Starr, Kevin. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press in July 2003

Now available from Spellmount
25 April 2003

Butler, Rupert. SS Hitlerjugend: An IIlustrated History of the 12th SS Division, 1943-45. Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Ltd, 2003

Forthcoming from Knopf
24 April 2003

Olson, Lynne and Stanley Cloud. A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron, Forgotten Heroes of World War II. Forthcoming from Knopf in September 2003

News from Schiffer
23 April 2003

The prolific gang at Schiffer Publishing has notified us of several newly released titles and several more due in the next few months. Check our Schiffer page for full details.

Cxld
23 April 2003

We're told by our friends at International Specialized Book Services that their Romanian Military Dictator, a book we've eagerly awaited, has been "abandoned" and will not be published.

Now available from Presidio
23 April 2003

Astor, Gerald. Terrible Terry Allen: The Soldiers' General. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2003

Now available from Praeger
23 April 2003

Allen, Robert W. Churchill's Guests: Britain and the Belgian Exiles during World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003

Grenadier
22 April 2003

In an era when printed catalogs of secondhand military books grow increasingly scarce, The Grenadier of Port Perry, Ontario has just printed and mailed its first—and very nice—catalog with an interesting array of books including a great many on Canadian military topics.

Now available from P&S
22 April 2003

Ballantyne, Iain. HMS London: Warships of the Royal Navy. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2003

Now available from Cornell
22 April 2003

Habeck, Mary R. Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003

News from Neil Short
21 April 2003

Neil Short, author of Hitler's Siegfried Line, informs us that he'll have another book about the West Wall, Germany's West Wall: The Siegfried Line, published by Osprey early next year.

Now available from Michaelis
21 April 2003

Michaelis, Rolf. Die Waffen-SS: Uniforms and Insignia. Berlin: Michaelis-Verlag, 2002

Hamilton
21 April 2003

The printed "Bargain Books" catalog dated 4 April arrived here today from Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller.

The Bookman
19 April 2003

Even the finest, we know, don't last forever in the secondhand military bookselling business, but we're saddened to hear that Harris and Margaretta Colt are closing down The Military Bookman, and we wish them the very best.

Now available from Classic
19 April 2003

J.Richard Smith and Martin Pegg. Luftwaffe Colours, Volume Three, Section 3: Jagdwaffe War over the Desert: North Africa, June 1940 - June 1942. Crowborough, UK: Classic Publications, 2003

Now available from Midland
18 April 2003

Coggan, Paul. Mustang Survivors. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing Limited, 2003

Forthcoming from Sutton
18 April 2003

Williamson, Gordon. Waffen-SS Handbook, 1933-1945. Forthcoming from Sutton Publishing Ltd in May 2003

Now available from Da Capo
18 April 2003

Kershaw, Alex. The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003

Editor's pick
17 April 2003

Sometimes when we run across an interesting/unusual/informative book, especially an old and out-of-print one, we like to bring it to your attention. Here's one:

Miller, Marshall Lee. Bulgaria during the Second World War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975

Not a rip-roaring combat narrative, but a fine example of a political/diplomatic history of the sort it would be nice to have for each nation during the war years. In this case, Bulgaria probably wins the "least effective diplomacy" award for finding itself in 1944 simultaneously at war with the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany....

Forthcoming from Presidio
17 April 2003

Fortier, Norman J. An Ace of the Eighth: An American Fighter Pilot's Air War inEurope. Forthcoming from Presidio Press in May 2003

Now available from UNC
16 April 2003

Miner, Steven Merritt. Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster
16 April 2003

Katz, Robert. The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944. Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in August 2003

News from John Murray
15 April 2003

Check our webpage for John Murray to see the latest news about all their new and forthcoming titles.

Now available from Nebraska
15 April 2003

Moltke, Freya von. Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003

Forthcoming from CUP
15 April 2003

Henriot, Christian and Wen-hsin Yeh (editors). In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in August 2003

Now available from TAMU
15 April 2003

Miller, Edward G. A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Huertgen Forest and Roer River Dams. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003

Now available from NIU
14 April 2003

Carpenter, Stephanie A. On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003

Forthcoming from U of Washington
14 April 2003

Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgement without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment during World War II. Forthcoming from University of Washington Press in August 2003

Now available from Motorbooks
14 April 2003

Guetat, Gerald. Liberty Ship. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks, 2003

Now available from Mushroom
14 April 2003

Michulec, Robert. Adolf Galland. Redbourn, UK: Mushroom Model Publications, 2003

Peczkowski, Robert and Artur Juszczak. Bell P-39 Airacobra. Redbourn, UK: Mushroom Model Publications, 2003

Book review
13 April 2003

Sakaida, Henry and Koji Takaki. Genda's Blade: Japan's Squadron of Aces, 343 Kokutai. Crowborough, UK: Classic Publications, 2003

Read our review

Now available from McFarland
12 April 2003

Sullivan, John J. Air Support for Patton's Third Army. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2003

The Bookshelf
12 April 2003

Today arrived here from Scholar's Bookshelf a printed catalog with "greatly reduced" prices, including a good section of WWII-related books.

Now available from HUP
11 April 2003

Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003

News from S.C. Heal
10 April 2003

"Just a note to let you know Ugly Ducklings was released April 1 by Vanwell and NIP. Looks very good indeed considering the difficulty in assembling all the info." —S.C. Heal, author of A Great Fleet of Ships: The Canadian Forts & Parks

Self-Publisher
10 April 2003

We've added another self-publisher, Brandon Wiegand, and his book to our Directory of Self-Publishers. If you have 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.

Now available from UPK
9 April 2003

Fisher, Louis. Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003

Now available from Overlook
9 April 2003

Connaughton, Richard. MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines. New York: Overlook, 2003

News from Grub Street
8 April 2003

We've received news from Grub Street about a plethora of soon-to-be-released WWII titles, and you can find complete details at our webpage for Grub Street

Now available from Basic
8 April 2003

Williams, Andrew. The Battle of the Atlantic. New York: Basic Books, 2003

Forthcoming from Nafziger
8 April 2003

Hautecler, Georges and George F. Nafziger (editor). Rommel and Guderian against the Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais: The Combats at Chabrehz and Bodange. Forthcoming from The Nafziger Collection in May 2003

News from Melnyk
7 April 2003

Michael James Melnyk, author of To Battle: The Formation and History of the 14th Galician Waffen-SS Division, tells us that he is planning to produce some additional materials on the 14th SS. Check our author page for him for details.

Self-Publisher
7 April 2003

We've added another self-publisher, Hugh Aaron, and his book to our Directory of Self-Publishers. If you have 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.

Now available from White Mane
7 April 2003

Frisch, Frantz A.P. and Wilbur D. Jones Jr. Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc, 2003

News from Joe Balkoski
5 April 2003

Joe Balkoski writes to us: "I have signed a contract with Stackpole Books to write a detailed history of the Omaha Beach landing, June 6, 1944. It should be in the stores in early 2004. It will depend heavily on first-person accounts written down as close as possible to the actual event. I'm about three-quarters through the manuscript as of April 2003, and I've discovered a lot of interesting new material on the landing."

Forthcoming from Kentucky
5 April 2003

Monahan, Evelyn M. and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese. Forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in August 2003

Better late than never....
4 April 2003

After a series of technical glitches, Graham Palmer has updated his massive online stock of WWII titles with more than 14,000 secondhand items at his World War II Books website.

Forthcoming from Helion
4 April 2003

Lord, Cliff and Graham Watson. The Royal Corps of Signals: Unit Histories of the Corps (1920-2001) and Its Antecedents. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2003

Now available from Battery
3 April 2003

Del Valle, Pedro A. Roman Eagles over Ethiopia, 1936-1937. Nashville, TN: Battery Press, 2003

Old Army
3 April 2003

Looks like Bruce Halsted has uploaded a fresh batch of inventory files—secondhand military title—to his Old Army Books website.

Jerboa
3 April 2003

Printed "Supplement #66" has been mailed by Jerboa-Redcap Books with six pages of new and used naval, military, and aviation titles.

Now available from TAMU
2 April 2003

Neiman, Robert M. and Kenneth W. Estes. Tanks on the Beaches: A Marine Tanker in the Pacific War. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003

AOW
2 April 2003

In addition to a plethora of WWII books, the Articles of War website contains a huge number of books on other military topics, and all items are available for easy searching, browsing, and purchasing.

News from Classic
1 April 2003

Thanks to Sally at Classic for sending news about three titles just released. Full details can be found on our webpage for Classic Publications.

Cadman
1 April 2003

Today Tom Cadman updated his website with a wide assortment of WWII books for sale.

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