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Henshaw, Jonathan et al (editors). Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931-45. Forthcoming from University of British Columbia Press in December 2020Book review8 November 2020Glantz, David M. with Jonathan M. House. The Stalingrad Trilogy, volume 1: To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009 Read our reviewWar Diary reminder8 November 2020This 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.Now available from Hachette7 November 2020Read, Simon. The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships. New York: Hachette Books, 2020Mussolini comes to America6 November 2020The UK edition was published earlier this year by Allen Lane, and the US edition of Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch is scheduled for release by Pegasus Books at the beginning of December.Now available from Casemate5 November 2020Butler, Daniel Allen. Pearl: December 7, 1941. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020Too close to call4 November 2020Thanks to Ed Rogers for bringing to our attention a pair of volumes from Hikoki, one newly available and one due in the spring: Flintham, Vic. Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean, volume 1: Defeat in France to el-Hamma, 1939-1943. Crowborough, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2020 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 2021Our mailman delivered to us printed "Catalogue #173" from T. Cadman WW2 Books, always worth a look for anyone seeking WWII-related titles.Forthcoming from Lyons3 November 2020Lupiano, Vincent. Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War. Forthcoming from Lyons Press in December 2020News from Walton on Thames2 November 2020We hear from Red Kite that Stefaan Bouwer's Luftwaffe Crash Archive: Desert Special, volume one will be published in the middle of this month, with volume two arriving at a later date.Book of the Month2 November 2020Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first 25 years of Stone & Stone:Wynn, Kenneth. U-Boat Operations of the Second World War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997 (two volumes)Book review1 November 2020Carr, John. The Defence and Fall of Greece 1940-41. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2020 Read our reviewForthcoming from UC Press31 October 2020Black, Jeremy. A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps. Forthcoming from University of California Press in November 2020Forthcoming from Knopf31 October 2020Allport, Alan. Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941. Forthcoming from Knopf Publishing Group in November 2020Now available from Bloomsbury30 October 2020Tremlett, Giles. The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War. London: Bloomsbury, 2020Forthcoming from Hachette30 October 2020Jones, Brent E. Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze. Forthcoming from Hachette Books in May 2021Now available from Osprey29 October 2020Buttar, Prit. The Reckoning: The Final Defeat of Army Group South, 1944-45. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2020Forthcoming from NIP28 October 2020Heinrich, Thomas. Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 1922-1945. Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press in November 2020Hell again27 October 2020D.M. Giangreco's Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 has been released in a new, expanded edition by Naval Institute Press.The new edition adds information on Project Milepost and Project Hula (the secret Lend Lease expansion to prepare Soviet Far East forces for the planned invasion of Manchuria); US, Soviet, and Japanese plans for the invasion of Hokkaido; and a detailed account of Operation Blacklist, the three-phase insertion of American occupation forces into Japan.Now available from McFarland27 October 2020Williams, Greg H. The U.S. Navy at Normandy: Landing Craft Organization and Activities in the D-Day Invasion. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2020News from Barnsley26 October 2020We are reliably informed of several new books from Pen & Sword: Forty, Simon and Jonathan Forty. Artillery Warfare, 1939-1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020 Carr, John. Mussolini's Defeat at Hill 731, March 1941: How the Greeks Halted Italy's Albanian Offensive. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020 Armstrong, Craig. Orkney and Scapa Flow at War 1939-45. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020 McDonald, Arthur. Helping Stop Hitler's Luftwaffe: The Memoirs of a Pilot Involved in the Development of Radar Interception. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020Lunde, Henrik O. Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2009Read our reviewWar Diary reminder25 October 2020This 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.Dying Sun in three parts24 October 2020From the Realm of a Dying Sun, volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Effort, December 1944-February 1944 by Douglas Nash is now available from Casemate. This volume, second in the set, was originally subtitled "IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945." However, it has been split in two, with the resultant third volume of the set dealing with the corps in the final months of the war currently scheduled for publication in March 2021.News from Canada23 October 2020John from JJF has announced availability of these two new books: Cazenave, Stephane. SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 in the Normandy Campaign, 1944. Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2020 Gunther, Helmut. Combat History of the 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Gotz von Berlichingen, volume 3. Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2020Read, Simon. The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships. Forthcoming from Hachette Books in November 2020Recommended22 October 2020As we do when arrival of new books so warrants, we've updated our Recommended Reading page, which is where you can find a list of books we believe deserve an extra measure of attention.Comrade Vlasov, I presume21 October 2020General Vlasov's story is one of the most fascinating of many strange threads in the tapestry of the Second World War. Newly published in Germany is the two-volume English translation of Soviet/Russian documents related to the investigation into Vlasov's activities during the war, amounting to more than 1000 pages of archival information. Russian State Archive for Social and Political History. The Vlasov Case: History of a Betrayal: volume 1: 1942-1945. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2020 Russian State Archive for Social and Political History. The Vlasov Case: History of a Betrayal: volume 2: 1945-1946. Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2020Holland, James. Sicily '43: The Assault on Fortress Europe. Forthcoming from Atlantic Monthly Press in November 2020Now available from Red Kite19 October 2020Krajci, Milan. Messerschmitt Bf 109E Units in the Battle of Britain, part 2: JG27, JG51, JG52. Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2020Forthcoming from MMP19 October 2020Kubiak, Krzysztof. Scapa Flow: Home of the Royal Navy 1939-1945. Forthcoming from MMP Books in November 2020Book reviews18 October 2020Boiten, Theo. Nachtjagd War Diaries: An Operational History of the German Night Fighter Force in the West, volume 1: September 1939 - March 1944. Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2008 Boiten, Theo and Roderick J. Mackenzie. Nachtjagd War Diaries: An Operational History of the German Night Fighter Force in the West, volume 2: April 1944 - May 1945. Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2008 Read our reviewNow available from Fonthill17 October 2020Knowles, Daniel. The Battle of the Denmark Strait: An Analysis of the Battle and the Loss of HMS Hood. Stroud, UK: Fonthill Media Limited, 2020Forthcoming from Avonmore16 October 2020Lewis, Tom. Eagles over Darwin: American Airmen Defending Northern Australia in 1942. Forthcoming from Avonmore Books in January 2021Forthcoming from Casemate15 October 2020Nash, Douglas E. From the Realm of a Dying Sun, volume 2: IV. SS-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, December 1944-May 1945. Forthcoming from Casemate in November 2020Now available from Lyons14 October 2020Dacus, Jeff. The Fighting Corsairs: The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2020Mussolini's Invasion: Forthcoming from Pen & Sword14 October 2020Carr, John. Mussolini's Defeat at Hill 731, March 1941: How the Greeks Halted Italy's Albanian Offensive. Forthcoming from Pen & Sword Books Ltd in November 2020Mussolini's Invasion: Forthcoming from Routledge13 October 2020Carrier, Richard. Mussolini's Army against Greece: October 1940-April 1941. Forthcoming from Routledge in March 2021Mussolini's Invasion: Forthcoming from Osprey13 October 2020Battistelli, Pier Paolo. Balkans 1940-41 (1): Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in January 2021Forthcoming from McFarland12 October 2020Whitehurst, G. William. The China Incident: Igniting the Second Sino-Japanese War. Forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc in November 2020Now available from U of Rochester12 October 2020Brooks, Crispin and Kiril Feferman. Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020Book review11 October 2020Jones, Michael K. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2007 Read our reviewNew to us10 October 2020Polikarpov, Nikolai and James Kinnear. SU-100 Self-Propelled Gun. Stockholm, Sweden: Canfora, 2020News from Barnsley9 October 2020Pen & Sword emailed us with news about their newest releases: Baxter, Ian. Hitler's Panther Tank Battalions, 1943-1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020 Fleischer, Wolfgang. T-34: An Illustrated History of Stalin's Greatest Tank. Barnsley, UK: Greenhill / Pen & Sword Books, 2020 Mead, Richard. Dambuster-in-Chief: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020Bowman, Ghee. The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2020Now available from Hachette7 October 2020Kelly, John. Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory. New York: Hachette Books, 2020Forthcoming from Stackpole in November, not October6 October 2020Luther, Craig W.H. and David Stahel. Soldiers of Barbarossa: Combat, Genocide and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June-December 1941. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in November 2020Recommended5 October 2020We've updated our Recommended Reading page, which is where you can find our list of books we think deserve an extra measure of attention.Where is the Admiral?3 October 2020The UK edition of Andrew Gordon's biography of Bertram Ramsey, Admiral of the Narrow Seas: The Life of Bertram Ramsay, has been postponed by Allen Lane until June of next year. Meanwhile, the planned US edition, Neptune's Admiral: The Life of Sir Bertram Ramsay, Commander of Dunkirk and D-Day, seems to have disappeared, except for an audio version.Forthcoming from Pen & Sword2 October 2020Degtev, Dmitry and Dmitry Zubov. Air Battle for Moscow 1941-1942. Forthcoming from Air World / Pen & Sword Books in January 2021Book of the Month1 October 2020Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first 25 years of Stone & Stone:Hayward, Joel S. A. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998Now available from Schiffer30 September 2020Young, Edward. The Tenth Air Force in World War II: Strategy, Command, and Operations 1942-1945. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2020Forthcoming from Savas Beatie30 September 2020Walker, Fred L. From Texas to Rome: Fighting World War II and the Italian Campaign with the 36th Infantry Division. Forthcoming from Savas Beatie in October 2020News from Bertke29 September 2020Bertke Publications reports World War II Sea War, volume 16: Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Attack of the Kamikaze amounting to a big, fat, juicy 620 pages is now available. The final volume, number 17, should be slimmer and could be available as soon as December.Better dead than red???28 September 2020The two-volume English translation of documents regarding General Andrey Vlasov from Soviet/Russian archives looks like it remains on schedule for publication next month: Russian State Archive for Social and Political History. The Vlasov Case: History of a Betrayal: volume 1: 1942-1945. Forthcoming from Ibidem Press in October 2020 Russian State Archive for Social and Political History. The Vlasov Case: History of a Betrayal: volume 2: 1945-1946. Forthcoming from Ibidem Press in October 2020Russ, William. Case White: The German Army in the Polish Campaign, September 1939. West Chester, OH: The Nafziger Collection, 2006Read our reviewNow available from Norton26 September 2020Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2020News from Lyons25 September 2020According to Lyons Press, Vincent Lupiano's new book has been delayed until December while the new book from Jeff Dacus should be available next month: Dacus, Jeff. The Fighting Corsairs: The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII. Forthcoming from Lyons Press in October 2020 Lupiano, Vincent. Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War. Forthcoming from Lyons Press in December 2020Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey. I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2020Pick a hemisphere, any hemisphere23 September 2020The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron was published in Australia earlier this year. It is currently scheduled to become available in the US and the UK in January.Now available from NIP22 September 2020Moore, Stephen L. Rain of Steel: Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze War off Okinawa. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2020Slip sliding away22 September 2020McFarland & Company has postponed Thomas Nutter's Eagle and Iron Cross: American and German Combat Effectiveness in World War II again, this time to March 2021.News from Canada21 September 2020J. J. Fedorowicz has announced its next two books "...are on the water sailing from Europe and should land here at the beginning of October." Gunther, Helmut. Combat History of the 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Gotz von Berlichingen, volume 3. Forthcoming from J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc in October 2020 Cazenave, Stephane. SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 in the Normandy Campaign, 1944. Forthcoming from J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc in October 2020Gamble, Bruce. Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul: Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II. St Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2006 Read our reviewNow available from NIP19 September 2020Rust, Eric C. U-boat Commander Oskar Kusch: Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2020Forthcoming from Osprey19 September 2020Buttar, Prit. The Reckoning: The Final Defeat of Army Group South, 1944. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in October 2020From P & S18 September 2020The latest WWII releases from Pen & Sword Books include these two titles: Wynn, Stephen. Countering Hitler's Spies: British Military Intelligence, 1940-1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2020 Sauer, Arno. In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2. Barnsley, UK: Frontline / Pen & Sword, 2020Luther, Craig W.H. and David Stahel. Soldiers of Barbarossa: Combat, Genocide and Everyday Experiences on the Eastern Front, June-December 1941. Forthcoming from Stackpole Books in October 2020Now available from U of Pittsburgh17 September 2020Grzebalkowska, Magdalena. Poland 1945: War and Peace. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2020Forthcoming from Basic16 September 2020McMeekin, Sean. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. Forthcoming from Basic Books in April 2021Now available from Georgetown16 September 2020Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler's Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2020Twenty-five years15 September 2020On 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-five 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 2020 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-five years, and we look forward to providing daily doses of news and information about WWII-related books for many more years. News from Red Kite14 September 2020In the wake of the Battle of Britain Combat Archive series and the one-off Dunkirk Combat Archive, the first of a pair of post-Dunkirk and pre-BoB titles is now available from Red Kite: Parry, Simon. Dunkirk to the Fall of France Air Combat Archive: 3 June - 18 June 1940. Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2020Book review13 September 2020Burton, John. Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006Read our reviewNow available from W&N12 September 2020Clay, Catrine. The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2020Forthcoming from Bloomsbury11 September 2020Dick, Charles. Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury in November 2020News from Avonmore10 September 2020Following the recent release of three new books by Michael Claringbould, we're told Avonmore has two more titles on the way. "Hoping to see them around November...." Claringbould, Michael and Peter Ingman. South Pacific Air War, volume 4: Buna and Milne Bay, June - September 1942. Forthcoming from Avonmore Books in November 2020 Claringbould, Michael John. Pacific Profiles, volume two: Japanese Army Bombers, Transports, and Miscellaneous: New Guinea and the Solomons, 1942-1944. Forthcoming from Avonmore Books in November 2020Huff, Gregg. The Economics of World War II in Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in October 2020War Diary reminder9 September 2020This seems like another 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.Now available from Texas8 September 2020Gabriel, Michael P. Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2020Cadman8 September 2020The latest printed catalog from T. Cadman WW2 Books number 172 arrived here safely despite massive fires, smoke-filled skies, record-breaking heat, and postal slowdowns.Latest from Casemate7 September 2020In addition to distributing titles for many other publishers, the busy team at Casemate publishes large numbers of its own books. Here are the most recent arrivals: Hillier-Graves, Tim. Widowmaker: Living and Dying with the Corsair. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020 Mesches, Alan E. Major General James A. Ulio: How the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army Enabled Allied Victory. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020Claringbould, Michael John. Pacific Adversaries, volume 3: Imperial Japanese Navy vs. the Allies, New Guinea and the Solomons 1942-1944. Kent Town, Australia: Avonmore Books, 2020Claringbould, Michael John. Pacific Profiles, volume one: Japanese Army Fighters: New Guinea and the Solomons, 1942-1944. Kent Town, Australia: Avonmore Books, 2020Claringbould, Michael. Operation I-Go: Yamamoto's Last Offensive: New Guinea and the Solomons, April 1943. Kent Town, Australia: Avonmore Books, 2020 Read our reviewsForthcoming from British Columbia5 September 2020Henshaw, Jonathan et al (editors). Translating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931-45. Forthcoming from University of British Columbia Press in December 2020Forthcoming from Texas4 September 2020Shortal, John. Code Name Arcadia: The First Wartime Conference of Churchill and Roosevelt. Forthcoming from Texas A&M University Press in January 2021Mussolini's War3 September 2020John Gooch's latest book, Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943, was published in May by Allen Lane. The US edition will be published in December by Pegasus Books.Now available from CUP2 September 2020de Zwarte, Ingrid. The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944-1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020War Diary reminder2 September 2020This seems like another 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.Forthcoming from Osprey1 September 2020Anderson, Thomas. The History of the Panzerjager: volume 2: From Stalingrad to Berlin 1943-45. Forthcoming from Osprey Publishing in November 2020War Diary reminder1 September 2020This 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.Book of the Month1 September 2020Looking back on some of our favorite books from the first 25 years of Stone & Stone:Shores, Christopher. Dust Clouds in the Middle East: The Air War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Madagascar, 1940-42. London: Grub Street, 1996For older entries, please visit our News Archives.Got news? Send us news about non-fiction WWII books, authors, and publishersAt Stone Stone Second World War Books, we don't buy, stock, publish, or sell books or anything else. This is strictly an informational website, designed to offer fresh news every day about WWII-related books, publishers, booksellers, and authors. We also provide a wide range of book reviews, historical essays, an online WWII order-of-battle database, and an entertaining WWII Trivia Challenge. We've been building this site since 1995, and we have almost 40,000 webpages of information available for you to explore and enjoy. Have fun!Authors and publishers of WWII-related books, please contact us so we can publicize the latest information about your new and forthcoming titles..::: Guestbook: Send welcome messages ::: Bill Books ::: Bill Bikes ::: Bill Games :::Books usually appear on our doorstep at an accelerated rate during the waning weeks of the year, and 2016 proved to be no exception. In addition to increased quantity, the last page of the calendar also saw arrival of some of the highest quality books of the year. Here we have short reviews of four excellent titles, all of which we strongly recommend as deserving an extra measure of attention from readers.Of the four books, the first three are also related because the authors chose to dig into topics for which some important primary material is nonexistent or unavailable. A former American Secretary of Defense, alluding to the "Johari window," f....

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