BASIC BOOKS
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (May, $27.50) by Max Boot cites the small skirmishes that were instrumental in America's ascent to world might. 60,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour .
BOYDELL & BREWER
Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour (July, $60), edited by David Nicolle, focuses on European arms and includes the influences of neighboring cultures such as Byzantium and the Golden Horde.
BRASSEY'S
Nontraditional Warfare: Twenty-First Century Threats and Responses (July; $59.95, paper $24.95), edited by William R. Schilling, concentrates on new threats to the U.S., from weapons of mass destruction to economic and urban warfare.
BURD STREET PRESS
The Hunley Story: Journey of a Confederate Submarine (Apr., $29.95) by R. Thomas Campbell reimagines the events of February 17, 1864, in pictures and words.
BURFORD BOOKS
Crossing the Sauer (Apr., $22.95) by Charles Reis Felix is a memoir about crossing Germany with Patton's Third Army.
CARLTON BOOKS
World War I & II: Boxed Set (July, $100 slipcase) by Richard Holmes contains images of the global conflicts from Britain's Imperial War Museum. Advertising .
COLLECTORS PRESS
United We Stand!: A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism (Mar., $19.95) by Richard J. Perry contains morale-boosting images from the 1940s plus guidelines on how and when to display the flag.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
The Shadow War Against Hitler: America's Covert Operations Against the Third Reich (Aug., $27.95) by Christof Mauch analyzes tactics employed by U.S. intelligence operations during WWII.
DUTTON
Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception (May, $24.95) by Philip Gerard relates how the 1,000 members of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops served as illusionists to deceive the German army. Author publicity.
FRIEDMAN/FAIRFAX
(dist. by Sterling)
Century of War (Apr., $60) by Luciano Garibaldi assembles images taken at the front lines of warfare by four generations of photographers and combatants.
GRUB STREET
(dist. by Seven Hills)
Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces 1931-1945 (May, $54.95) by Ikuhiko Hata et al. reviews these squads and provides biographical notes on notable pilots.
HOWELL PRESS
Flying Boats: The J-Class Yachts of Aviation (Mar., $60) by Alexander Frater, paintings by Ian Marshall, remembers the period in the 1930s when special aircraft carried their landing strips to land on water.
Nation's Hangar: The Aircraft Study Collection of the National Air & Space Museum (Aug., $49.95) by Robert van der Linden walks the reader through this Maryland restoration and preservation facility.
HUGH LAUTER LEVIN
(dist. by PGW)
United States Submarines (Apr., $75), edited by David Hinkle, USN (Ret.), is a large format text-and-picture book of the 20th-century America's submarine force.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
War Stories: Remembering World War II (May, $39.95) by Elizabeth Mullener presents 53 eyewitness testimonies of major events during WWII. Advertising .
MBI
I Was with Patton (Mar., $24.95) by D.A. Lande gathers personal accounts of WWII veterans who served with Patton's Third Army.
MORROW
Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It (July, $25.95) by Greg Freeman reconstructs the events of the 1967 fire on board the aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of Vietnam. Advertising .
OHIO UNIV. PRESS
Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: The Gold Coast in World War II (May, $49.95) by Nancy Ellen Lawler is an account of one African colony set within the wider context of WWII.
PUTNAM
The Secrets of Inchon: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Covert Mission of the Korean War (May, $27.95) by Eugene Franklin Clark, USN, is a first-person account. Advertising.
RANDOM HOUSE
Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner's Baptism in Battle-1945 (May, $21) by John P. Irwin is a memoir armed with humor and horror. Author tour .
STACKPOLE
Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II (Apr., $34.95), edited by Peter G. Tsouras, hypothesizes how Hitler might have defeated the Allies.
TUTTLE
Samurai: An Illustrated History (Apr., $34.95) by Mitsuo Kure includes the arms, armor and history of the Japanese warriors.
UNIV. OF ALABAMA PRESS
China Marine (July, $29.95) by E.B. Sledge is an account of WWII battle and homecoming. Ad/promo .
UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS
The Twenty-Five-Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon (Mar., $TBA) by Lam Quang Thi. The author/general served in the Vietnamese National Army and the Army Corps Task Force along the Demilitarized Zone.
UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary Prose (May, $29) by Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina assembles the recollections from a group of women who endured the 900-day siege of Leningrad.
UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS
A Gift of Barbed Wire: America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam (July, $26.95) by Robert McKelvey reports on the incarceration of South Vietnamese officials and their families after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Policy (Apr., $34.95) by Mitchell B. Lerner investigates Cold War policies, when the crew of an American ship was captured on its first mission.
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (May, $29.95) by Bryan Mark Rigg weighs the ramifications regarding men in the German forces who were classified as Jews under Hitler's racial laws. Author tour.
UNIV. PRESS OF KENTUCKY
America Attacks Japan: The War That Never Was (Aug., $25) by Tim Maga ponders the possible results of the Allied plan to invade Japan.
VIRGIN BOOKS
Espionage: An A-Z of Spies and Secrets (July, $29.95) by Richard M. Bennett contains 500 entries.
WHITE MANE BOOKS
Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield (June, $24.95) by Jay Jorgensen is a retelling of the battle of July 2, 1863.
