By Kevin Seabrooke

Full Reviews

The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933–1945 (Frank McDonough, Apollo/Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, NY, 416pp., Jan. 27, 2026, $45 HC)

Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present (Luke Berryman, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, NY, 296 pp., Jan. 22, 2026 $27 HC)

The Road to Cisterna: Darby’s Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II (David Lyle Williams, LSU Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 401 pp., 22 illustrations, 12 maps, Sept. 26, 2025, $44.95 HC)

Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich (Richard J. Evans, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 624 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, index, Nov. 18, 2025 $24 SC)

Devil’s Fire, Southern Cross: The Conclusion of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, October 1943–February 1944 (Jeffrey Cox, Osprey, New York, NY, 496pp., 8 pages of b/w plates, maps, index, select bibliography, Nov. 18, 2025 $35 HC)

FORGOTTEN SOULS: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen (Cheryl W. Thompson, Dafina Books (Kensington Publishing Corp)-Dist. by Penguin Random House, 240 pp., Jan. 27, 2026 $30 HC)

Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City that Defied Hitler (Sinclair McKay, Pegasus Books/ dist. Simon & Schuster, 432pp., January 6, 2026 $35 HC)

Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 (Alan Allport, Knopf, New York, NY, 656 pp., maps, illustrations, bibliography, index, Jan. 6, 2026 $40 HC))

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (Ian Buruma, Penguin Press, New York, NY, 400 pp. March 17, 2026 $32 HC)

Short Bursts

Leatherneck Physician: The Life and Legacy of Rear Admiral Eugene R. Hering, Jr. (Captain Eugene H. Ginchereau, MC, USNR (Ret.) and André B. Sobocinski, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 120 pp. Jan. 6, 2026 $39.95 HC) The first naval medical officer to serve as the Medical Officer of the Marine Corps, Hering was at the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, and the Chosin Reservoir.

Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War II (Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Pegasus Books/Dist. by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 816 pp., Jan. 6, 2026, $42 HC) The harrowing tale of the Arctic convoys sailing the Arctic Circle to supply war materials to Russia.

USS Yorktown (CV-10): Essex-Class Carrier in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Apollo 8 (David Doyle, Schiffer Military History, Atglen, PA, 176 pp., 350 b/w and color photos, Jan. 28, 2026 $29.99 HC) This Legends of Warfare book includes 350 images of the ship during its long naval service.

Heinkel He 219 Units (Martin Streetly, illustrated by Gareth Hector and Janusz Swiatlon, Osprey Publishing, New York, NY, 96 pp., color artwork plates and maps, b/w and color photographs and illustrations, Jan. 27, 2026 $25 SC) Combat Aircraft entry on the Heinkel He 219, the Luftwaffe’s only purpose-built nightfighter.

Lighting the Torch: The Tunisian Campaign and Forging an Allied Way of War 1942-43 (Sam Wallace, Helion and Company (Dist. by Casemate), Warwick, England, 208pp., Jan. 31, 2026 $49.95 HC) Covers the WWII Tunisian Campaign, November 1942 to May 1943, where the Allies forces, especially the Americans, “learned to fight.”

Bloody Skies: Fifteenth Fighter Command Against All Odds (Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, Osprey Publishing, New York, NY, 320 pp., 6 pp.-b/w plate section, March 10, 2026 $32 HC) The “Forgotten 15th” included famous units like the Red Tails—the Tuskegee Airmen—the 82nd Fighter Group and the 325th’s “Checkertail Clan.”

A Sky Never Forgotten: A WWII Pilot’s Journey Through War and Captivity (Maida Purdy, forward by Mike Guardia, Purdy Publishing House, Miami, FL, 234 pp., Nov. 3, 2025 $16.99 SC) Author tells the firsthand story of her father, Lt. Robert Purdy—a U.S. Army Air Corps B-24 bomber pilot who flew 17 missions over Europe during World War II.

Rhineland: Hitler’s Last Defence, 1944–45 (Anthony Tucker-Jones, Osprey, New York, NY, 288 pp., 16 pages of b/w plates, b/w maps throughout, Oct. 7, 2025 $35 HC) The Allied battle to cross the Rhine River into Germany told from the perspective of the Axis defenders.

On Board the USS Boise in World War II: The Battles and Secret Missions of Light Cruiser CL-47 (Ian S. Bertram, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 235 pp., September 2025 $39.95 SC) The light cruiser USS Boise conducted secret missions and fought at in the Pacific Theater at Guadalcanal, Sicily, New Guinea, and the Philippines.

MacArthur Reconsidered: General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander (James Ellman, Stackpole Books/Dist. by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 296 pp., 2024 $29.95 HC) One of America’s most controversial generals, MacArthur continues to polarize. Unlike many, who see him as a great leader and patriot who had a few flaws, Ellman argues that “MacArthur was a lackluster battlefield commander who suffered stunning defeats while undermining the command structure of our military.”

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