Arcole Publishing imprint: 86 books

A Discord of Trumpets

An Autobiography

by Claud Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LEGENDARY NEWSPAPERMAN WHO IS NAMED CLAUD COCKBURN (pronounced Coburn) and who has been called many things (most of the pronounced abusively) by well-known personages all over the world for a quarter of a century. For some years before World War II he was the diplomatic...

Marshall

Citizen Soldier

by William Frye
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

If you think of biography as the static record of a man’s achievement, compiled during twenty or more mellowing years, William Frye’s book will have the impact of an electric shock. Marshall: Citizen Soldier is not to be leafed through idly, just as George Catlett Marshall himself cannot be regarded...
by Don Lohbeck
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

First published in 1956, this is the biography of Patrick Jay Hurley (1883-1963), a highly decorated American soldier, statesman, and diplomat who served as the U.S. Secretary of War (1929-1933), President Roosevelt’s personal representative in the Near and Middle East (1943), and U.S. ambassador...

The Blue Devils in Italy

A History of the 88th Infantry Division in World War II

by T/Sgt. John P. Delaney
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

The 88th Division played a major role in the battle of Italy, where it was rated by the Germans after the summer of 1944 as the best American division in Italy. Because of the outstanding job it did in Italy, the 88th contributed its share to the winning of the war. It was the first of the draft infantry...
by Burke Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

One night in December 1941 a young Italian sat shivering on a buoy in Alexandria Harbour. Four hours later two British battleships blew up and settled on the muddy bottom. Luigi De La Penne had successfully completed one of the most fantastic surprise attacks of the war. This and many other...
by Rear-Adm. Sir Kenelm Creighton
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

On September 4, 1939, Admiral Creighton, who had retired from the Navy five years earlier, reported again to the Admiralty for service as a Commodore of Ocean Convoys. In the following three years he conducted 24 convoys to various parts of the world. The greater part of this time was spent...
by Wing Cmdr. J. R. D. Braham
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST DECORATED FIGHTER PILOTS TELLS HIS RIVETING TRUE STORY OF AERIAL COMBAT… Fast-paced, hard-hitting and personal, Wing Commander J. R. D. “Bob” Braham recounts his brilliant career as a World War II fighter pilot. Beginning with his pre-war training, he takes us...
by Julius Fucik, Samuel Sillen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017

On 24 April 1942, Czechoslovak journalist and active CPC member Julius Fucik was detained in Pankrác Prison in Prague, where he was subsequently interrogated and tortured, before being sent to Germany to stand trial for high treason. It was during this time that Fucik’s Notes from the Gallows...
by Fred Clinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1946, this is an account of 71st Infantry Division’s role in World War II, it was activated on July 15, 1943 at Camp Carson, Colorado. After some time training in the U.S. the division arrived in France in February 1945, entering the line at Ratswiller on 11th March 1945. Thereafter...

Soldier, Artist, Sportsman

The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent

by Gen. Lord Rawlinson of Trent
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

First published in 1928, taken from his own journals and letters, this biography traces General Lord Rawlinson’s life, from his service with Kitchener to his post-war posting to India. “On the grounds that Lord Rawlinson’s journals show us in his own words the development of his mind,...

Timberwolf Tracks

The History of the 104th Infantry Division, 1942-1945

by Lt.-Col. Leo A. Hoegh
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018

“‘The most rigorous service which a soldier is called upon to perform is the duty of a ground combat soldier. He is the man who must wade in the mud, endure heat and cold, and sleep on the ground. That is the toughest kind of service.’ These words, spoken from the floor of the United States...
by Cmdr. Kenneth Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

Originally published in 1943, this is a unique collection of accounts relating to 19 distinguished Royal Navy Admirals and Captains of the Second World War Royal Navy. Written in the midst of World War II by Royal Navy Commander Kenneth Edwards, each contemporary portrait is filled with fascinating...

Blinded by Doctrine

Lessons Learned from the Luftwaffe

by Lt.-Col. Brian D. Spino
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018

This paper will conduct an analysis of the failure of the Luftwaffe (1939-45) and identify practices for the United States Air Force to avoid. The analysis will address lack of vision and institutional inflexibility in crafting airpower doctrine, as well as explore the ensuing systemic mismatch of...

Breakthrough: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Bulge

The Greatest Pitched Battle in America’s History

by Franklin M. Davis Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

“This battle,” Hitler said, “is to decide whether we shall live or die.” Skilfully, secretly, he assembled three German armies—24 divisions, 250,000 men, 970 tanks and 1900 pieces of artillery. Taking advantage of the harsh winter, he picked a place where the Allied forces...
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