Forthcoming titles for 2023

[Cantankerous]

I'm quite heartened that Dan Sharp had his book about the development and evolution of the Messerschmitt Me 262 finally published this year by Tempest Books, but I'm looking forward to seeing Sharp's next book on WW2 German combat aircraft projects, titled Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe, Volume 2: Bombers 1939-1945, published in the next few months, and Tempest Books now has the book Eagles Of The Luftwaffe: Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor scheduled for publication next month. I happened to find a number of WW2-era books scheduled for publication next year:
*Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41
*Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-on-Don and Kharkov 1942–43
*Naval Battle of Crete 1941: The Royal Navy at Breaking Point
*Assault on the Gothic Line 1944: The Allied Attempted Breakthrough into Northern Italy
*Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943
*South China Sea 1945

[J. Duncan]

Thanks for starting this new thread since 2022 is at an end. Forthcoming books should now be posted here. There may be carryovers from the older thread since some have still not been published.
One which I will plug for again is Johann Chapoutot “Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management”. This book is brief but sounds interesting since it may contain some information about Reinhard Höhn , an SS officer of some note who worked under the aegis of Reinhard Heydrich. Book may illustrate how Nazi managerial styles survived into the present day through a post war “managerial school” .

https://www.europaeditions.com/book/978 ... ee-to-obey

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbook ... chapoutot/

[Michael Miller]

I already posted this to the NSDAP/etc. Forum but it also seems to fit here, so...

I was originally working on a second edition of Leaders of the Storm Troops, Volume 1, but the wealth of new information and photos I've amassed renders it an entirely new book and, if I do say so myself, worthy of an altogether new title: SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 1 (Oberster SA-Führer & SA-Stabschef). I was also planning to include all SA-Obergruppenführer from Adolf Heinz Beckerle to Kurt Günther, but that would've resulted in a single volume of at least 1,300 pages... too much for the printing machinery at Fonthill. My hope is that the first two volumes will be released in 2023. Volumes 2 through 4 will cover alll the SA-Obergruppenführer, and subsequent ones will detail the Gruppenführer, Brigadeführer, and all ranks of the NSKK and NSFK from Korpsführer through Brigadeführer.

Here's what I foresee:
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 1 (Oberster SA-Führer & SA-Stabschef)
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 2 (SA-Obergruppenführer, B - G)
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 3 (SA-Obergruppenführer, H - P)
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 4 (SA-Obergruppenführer, R - W)
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 5 (SA-Gruppenführer)
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 6 (SA-Brigadeführer, A - L)
SA-Führer: The Senior Leadership of Hitler's Storm Troops, 1920-1945, Volume 7 (SA-Brigadeführer, M - Z)
Leaders of the NSKK & NSFK (Korpsführer to Brigadeführer)

I may get back to Leaders of the SS & German Police- likely scaling back my original plan of also including non-SS-affiliated Generalleutnante & Generalmajore der Polizei an simply re-branding it as Leaders of the SS, but my priority is going to be the leaders "Braune Armee" for quite a while to come.

And of course there's Gauleiter, Volume 4 to complete- covering all stellvertretender (deputy) Gauleiter and pre-Anschluß/unofficial/illegal holders of the title. I will get to that someday.

Many thanks to the many people here who've supported my work over the years.

Best wishes,
​​​​​​​~ Mike

[J. Duncan]

Best for ‘23 Mike. With exception of “Knights Cross” I have collected all the above. Looking forward to the revamped volume 1 of “Storm Troops”. A lot of Lutze photos have surfaced the last few years on the internet. I don’t collect photos but I’ve seen many of them and quickly forget them. Great thing about books of your specialty is that they put them on paper in one place.

[Andrew Arthy]

Hi,

This seems a good place to mention our latest Air War Publications blog post, mentioning the status of our various Luftwaffe and other aviation history books: https://airwarpublications.com/seasons- ... lications/.

My Air War Courland book obviously focuses on the Luftwaffe and VVS, but I've done a lot of research in the Heer and Kriegsmarine records, to ensure the Courland land and sea war is covered properly for the period July 1944 to May 1945.

Cheers,
Andrew A.

[pim]

Love your work Michael Miller and all the best for 2023. I have all your books, as should anyone seriously interested in studying the Third Reich. And I'm very much looking forward to your new publications. Appreciate the massive effort this must take. Thanks ! Peter

[guder]

Any release dates for your books Michael? Impressive list!

Paul

[Cantankerous]

The new bookazine Luftwaffe Fighters: Combat on all Fronts Volume 2 has been published and can be bought here at these links:
https://www.classicmagazines.co.uk/prod ... onts-vol-2
https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/ ... onts-vol-2
https://www.amazon.com/Luftwaffe-Fighte ... 1911703064

[guder]

Panther: Bergepanther Ausf. D - By Trojca

The first of a new 3-volume set on the Panther tank from Waldemar Trojca. The first volume, Panther: Bergepanther D, from Trojca’s Technical and Operational History series, will be a monster (896 pages). JJ Fedorowicz is carrying it for North America. Cost is $190CDN for volume 1. Should be shipping at the end of this month.

https://www.jjfpub.mb.ca/product/panthe ... er-ausf-d/

Paul

[Cantankerous]

Recently, I happened to find a forthcoming book about the Messerschmitt Me 309 prototype fighter aircraft:
https://www.amazon.com/Messerschmitt-30 ... oks&sr=1-3

The Me 309 is a very lesser-known German air superiority fighter type, constituting the first of two efforts by Messerschmitt to field a successor to the Bf 109 (the other being the Me 209-II flown in 1943), and it therefore hard for me to fathom the idea of Calum Douglas and Dan Sharp working on a book about the Me 309. However, I'm curious if this soon-to-be published book will include a brief section on the Me 309Z fighter-bomber project because that aircraft was a twin-fuselage Me 309 and it's clear from wartime Messerschmitt and RLM documents that the Me 609 designation associated with the Me 309Z in some older books was actually allocated by the RLM as a cover designation for late-war Me 262s built at Regensburg.

[Richard Anderson]

My fourteen-plus-year book project For Purpose of Service Test has been re-titled as American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II. Currently it is 692 pages with c. 420 photos and should be released 16 December 2023. https://www.amazon.com/American-Thunder ... 138&sr=1-7

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Acknowledgements
U.S. Army World War II Procurement and Nomenclature
Part One: Organization, Development, and Production from Armistice Day to VJ Day
Chapter 1 Stagnation and Rebirth: The Lean Years from the End of the Great War to 1 September 1939
Chapter 2 State of the Art: The View Looking in, Sereno Brett and Arthur Hadsell
Chapter 3 Learning to Walk: 1 September 1939 to 30 June 1940
Chapter 4 State of the Art: The View Looking Out, the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 5 The Sleeping Giant Stirs: 1 July to 31 December 1940
Chapter 6 The Threat Perceived
Chapter 7 Explosive Growth…and Growing Pains: 1 January to 7 December 1941
Chapter 8 First Blood in the Pacific: The Fall of the Philippines, 1941-1942
Chapter 9 Giant Steps…and Stumbles: the First Year of the War, 1942
Chapter 10 Hard Knocks: The Battle of Happy Valley
Chapter 11 Learning Curve: the Second Year of the War, 1943
Chapter 12 More Hard Knocks: Early Lessons Learned
Chapter 13 Maturity: the Third Year of the War, 1944
Chapter 14 Europe: the Normandy Breakout
Chapter 15 Endgame, the Last Year of the War, 1945
Chapter 16 Europe: The Winter of Discontent
Chapter 17 Firestorm in the Pacific
Part Two: Controversies
Chapter 18 Death Traps? Myths of U.S. Tank Development in World War II
Chapter 19 The Great Tank Scandal? “It is said that it takes three of our Shermans to knock out a Tiger.”
Chapter 20 Bigger Guns?
Chapter 21 Where are the Tanks? The Real Tank Scandal
Chapter 22 What’s in a Name?
Conclusion
Appendix I: Other Ordnance Combat Vehicles
Tank Recovery Vehicles
Mine Clearing Vehicles
Flame Throwing Vehicles
Tank Rocket Launchers
Engineer Assault Vehicles
Remanufactured Tanks
Appendix II: Lend-Lease
Appendix III: Tank ‘T’ Numbers Assigned by Ordnance, 1926-1945
Appendix IV: Tank Model Year, ‘Mark’, and ‘M’ Numbers Assigned by Ordnance, 1928-1945
Appendix V: The Cost of Ordnance
Appendix VI: The Cost of War: U.S. Army Armored Personnel and Tank Losses in World War II
Appendix VII: Firing Tests
Shoeburyness Test, 23 May 1944 (1st ETOUSA Test)
Balleroy Test, 10 July 1944 (2d ETOUSA Test)
1st Isigny Test, 12-30 July 1944 (3d ETOUSA Test)
2nd Isigny Test, 19-21 August 1944 (4th ETOUSA Test)
703d Tank Destroyer Battalion Test, 5-9 December 1944
Bibliography

A little more info.

The structure of Part One juxtaposes a chapter on Organization, Doctrinal Development, and Development and Production with a following chapter on the actual experience, usually from someone that was there, writing at the time. So Chapter 8: First Blood in the Pacific, is Thomas Dooley's account of the First Provisional Tank Brigade in the Philippines.

However, Chapter 16 and 17 are slightly different.

Chapter 16 looks at the last year of armored operations in Europe and includes a firsthand account by Kenneth Peters of the 5th Armd Div experience in the Hürtgen, a compendium of experience reports from the Ordnance officers of the 12th Army Group Armored Section, and a detailed account of the "Duel at Cologne Cathedral". For the last I was lucky enough to have the leading experts on that action, Danny Fong and Dierk Lürbke, read and corrected my account. I think it is possibly the most accurate account of that fight out there.

Chapter 17 looks exclusively at the armored experience in the Pacific, with a short account of Army and Marine developments including a compendium of the various island battles but I also take a detailed look at the experience of Company C. I Corps Medium Tank Battalion USMC on Tarawa. Again, I was lucky enough to enjoy the support of some of the most knowledgeable historians on the subject, Ken Estes and Romain Cansiere.

[Sheldrake]

Can't wait to buy American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II

[Richard Anderson]

Can't wait to buy American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II

Thank you! I forgot to include the list of tables.

Table 1: Organization of the Cavalry Regiment (Mechanized) 1935
Table 2: Tank Production 1921-1933
Table 3: Tank Production 1934-1 September 1939
Table 4: Tank Production 1 September 1939-30 June 1940
Table 5: Armored Force General Staff, June 1940.
Table 6: Organization of the Armored Force, July 1940.
Table 7: The National Guard Tank Battalions
Table 8: Organization of the Armored Division, 1940.
Table 9: Tank Production 1 July-31 December 1940
Table 10: Medium Tank M3/Grant I Production
Table 11: Medium Tank M3A1 Production
Table 12: Medium Tank M3A2 Production
Table 13: Medium Tank M3A3 Production
Table 14: Medium Tank M3A4 Production
Table 15: Medium Tank M3A5 Production
Table 16: Medium Tank M3-Series Production
Table 17: British Designations for the Medium Tank M3 Series
Table 18: Light Tank M3-Series Production
Table 19: Tank Production 1 January-31 December 1941
Table 20: Organization of the Armored Division, 1942.
Table 21:Medium Tank M4 (75mm) Production
Table 22: Medium Tank M4A1 (75mm) Production
Table 23: Medium Tank M4A3 (75mm) Production
Table 24: Medium Tank M4A4 (75mm) Production
Table 25: Medium Tank M4A5 (RAM) Production
Table 26: Medium Tank M4A6 (75mm) Production
Table 27: British Designations for the Medium Tank M4-series
Table 28: Light Tank M5-series Production
Table 29: British Designations for Light Tanks M3 and M5
Table 30: Tank Production 1 January-31 December 1942
Table 31: Production of the T10 Shop Tractor (CDL)
Table 32: The Armored Group Headquarters
Table 33: Unit Assignments to the Armored Divisions before the 1943 Reorganization
Table 34: Organization of the Armored Division, 1943.
Table 35: Reorganization of the Armored Regiments, 1943
Table 36: Unit Assignments to the Reorganized Armored Divisions
Table 37: Tank Loading Capacity of Allied Landing Craft and Ships 1945
Table 38: Light Tank T9E1 Production
Table 39: Tank Production 1 January-31 December 1943
Table 40: Organization of the 741st Tank Battalion for D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Table 41: Availability of Dozer Blades in the ETOUSA
Table 42: Allocation of 76mm and 105mm Armed Medium Tanks January- May 1944
Table 43: ‘Ultimate Design’ Medium Tank M4A3 (75mm) Wet Production
Table 44: ‘Ultimate Design’ Medium Tank M4-Series (76mm) Wet Production
Table 45: ‘Ultimate Design’ Medium Tank M4-Series (105mm) Production
Table 46: Status of ETOUSA Medium Tanks, 20 October – 20 December 1944
Table 47: Medium Tank T23 Production
Table 48: Light Tank M24 Production
Table 49: Medium Tank T25 and T25E1 Production
Table 50: Assault Tank M4A3E2 Production
Table 51: Losses of the Medium (Assault) Tank M4A3E2
Table 52: Heavy Tank T1-Series Production
Table 53: Tank Production 1 January – 31 December 1944
Table 54: Operational Tank Strength of VII Corps on the eve of Operation COBRA
Table 55: Wartime Deployment and Inactivation of the Tank Battalions
Table 56: Organization of the Armored Division, 1945.
Table 57: Heavy Tanks T26E3 issued to 3d Armored Division 20 February 1944
Table 58: Status of T26E3 as of 14 April 1945
Table 59: Heavy Tank T26E3 allocations and on hand, April 1945
Table 60: Status of Heavy Tanks T26, 5 May 1945
Table 61: Light Tanks M24 “on hand” with 12th Army Group, 3 March – 11 April 1945
Table 62: Allocation of Light Tanks M24 to the 12th Army Group, 12 November 1944-213 April 1945
Table 63: Light Tanks M24 with 12th Army Group Units, 28 April 1945
Table 64: American 17-pdr Tank Conversions
Table 65: Medium Tank M4-Series Production by Manufacturer
Table 66: Total OCO-D and OMP Medium Tank M4-series Production
Table 67: Heavy Tank T26-Series Production
Table 68: Tank Production 1 January – 31 August 1945
Table 69: Tank Production 1 July 1940-31 August 1945
Table 70: Change in Tank Strength, 5th Armored Division, 2200 24 November-8 December 1944
Table 71: Status of HVAP as of 14 February 1945
Table 72: Special Projectiles Manufactured for the 3-inch, 76mm, and 90mm guns (1,000’s)
Table 73: Principal Ordnance Tank Periscope Systems.
Table 74: Principal Ordnance Tank and GMC Telescopes.
Table 75: Known Medium Tank Deliveries to the ETOUSA, June-September 1944
Table 76: 12th Army Group Monthly Medium Tank Status
Table 77: Average Daily Medium Tank Strength in 12th Army Group
Table 78: First U.S. Army Tank Allocations Oct 44-Apr 45
Table 79: Third U.S. Army Tank Allocations Oct 44-Apr 45
Table 80: Ninth U.S. Army Tank Allocations Oct 44-Apr 45
Table 81: Fifteenth U.S. Army Tank Allocations Jan-Apr 45
Table 82: 12th Army Group Tank Allocations Nov 44-Jan 45
Table 83: Total Tank Allocations to 12th Army Group Oct 44-Apr 45
Table 84: On Hand and Redeployment of ETOUSA Tank Stocks 31 May-31 August 1945.
Table 86: Tank Recovery Vehicle Production
Table 87: Mechanized and Main Armament Flamethrower Production
Table 88: Medium Tank M4-series Remanufactured Production
Table 89: Light Tank M5, M5A1, and M3A3 Remanufactured Production
Table 90: Medium Tank M3 Allocation to the British Empire as of July 1942
Table 91: 21st Army Group Sherman Tank Holdings, 21 January 1945
Table 92: Lend-Lease Tank Deliveries to Britain according to Hunnicutt.
Table 93: Lend-Lease Tanks Deliveries to the UK according to ASF
Table 94: Canadian Tank Situation in Northwest Europe, May and December 1944
Table 95: Lend-Lease Tanks Shipped to the USSR
Table 96: Lend-Lease Tanks Shipped to the French
Table 97: Lend-Lease Tank Shipments by Type and Recipient as Recorded by the War Department
Table 98: Estimated Value of Army Ordnance Procurement of Combat Vehicles ($-thousands)
Table 99: Armored Division Total Personnel Losses
Table 100: U.S. Tank Casualties by Theater and Year as Calculated by ORO
Table 101: 5th Echelon Maintenance Awaiting Completion at ETOUSA Depots
Table 102: Total Work Orders by First U.S. Army Ordnance Maintenance
Table 103: 12th Army Group Tank Losses by Armies
Table 104: 12th Army Group Medium Tank Losses
Table 105: Armored Division and Tank Battalion Tank Losses
Table 106: Mechanized Cavalry Tank and Armored car Losses ETOUSA
Table 107: First U.S. Army Tank Loss by Type, 6 June 1944 – 8 May 1945
Table 108: First U.S. Army Strength and Losses, June-July 1944
Table 109: First French Army Medium Tank Losses
Table 110: U.S. Army Tank Losses in North Africa and Sicily
Table 111: U.S. Army Tank Losses in the Pacific
Table 112: U.S. Marine Corps Tank Losses in the Pacific
Table 113: U.S. Army Tank and Armored Vehicle Losses in the European Theater of Operations
Table 114: First Army Operational Tanks and Losses
Table 115: Third Army Operational Tanks and Losses
Table 116: Ninth Army Operational Tanks and Losses
Table 117: Fifth Army Tank Losses, Italian Campaign

[Trilisser, M. A.]

Mr. Anderson, can you persuade the publisher to make sure that your book gets proper sewn binding, not third-rate glued one that falls apart.

[J. Duncan]

3 new titles of interest.