Arcole Publishing imprint: 86 books
by Prince Max of Baden Baden
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This is Volume I of II comprising the authorized translation of Prince Max of Baden’s German memoirs published in 1927 (original German title: Erinnerungen und Dokumente). This translation was first published in 1928.
“NOT long after the Revolution, when it became clear that an essential...
by Alec De Montmorency
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The enigma of Admiral Darlan is a part of the great French tragedy. His vertiginous rise to power in the very midst of the French catastrophe, his enigmatic wranglings with the Germans, his defiance of the natural friends of France, his insistence on questions of national pride when it seemed to the...
by Joseph Kessel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
THIS IS THE TRUTH, THOUGH THE FORM IS FICTION…
The terrible and inspiring truth about the French underground, the way it’s men and women operate, fight, die, a story full of nobility, heroism, and brutal violence.
First published in its English translation in 1944, this is the fictionalized...
by M. E. Clifton James
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Deception and intrigue: the top-secret plot behind the D-Day landings…
To Adolf Hitler, aware in 1944 that the Allied invasion of Europe was imminent, General Montgomery was the embodiment of Allied might, and they knew that wherever the blow fell “Monty” would be in the van of it.
Knowing...
The White Kepi
A Casual History of the French Foreign Legion
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Heroic figures galloping across the loose sands of the Sahara, their flowing white kepis a symbol of the highest romance and adventure...or murderers and human derelicts, rejected by society and hunted by the police, seeking escape from prison in the ranks of the Légion Étrangère? Neither picture—so...
Yankee Fighter
The Story of an American in the Free French Legion
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This is the true story of Jack Hasey, an American captain in the Free French Foreign Legion during the Second World War, who was critically wounded during the Battle of Damascus in June 1941.
His bravery earned him the Order of the Cross of Liberty, the Croix de guerre 39-45 with four citations,...
The Tide Turns
The Battles of Stalingrad, Alamein and Tunisia (23 August 1942-14 May 1943)
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1944, “[t]he events with which this volume deals form an episode with a certain organic unity and completeness. They include the almost indescribable battle of Stalingrad and the Russian recoil; but they also take in the events in North Africa. They describe, therefore, the...
by Strategicus
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1947, “This volume is the last of the series in which I have attempted to write the history of the war while it is actually taking place. It does not appear during the war for the best of reasons; but it is unduly late because of a number of personal mischances and because...
by Strategicus
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1940, “[T]his book is an attempt to provide a survey of the war that will commend itself to the majority of intelligent readers as giving the significant events of that great struggle. I have not attempted to give a detailed story even where, for certain reasons, it would...
The Conduct of War, 1789-1961
A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“A tour de force in the way it embraces and weaves together the political, economic and military factors”—B. H. Liddell Hart
“A work which sums up succinctly the learning of a life-time.”—New Statesman
The Conduct of War, 1789-1961, which was originally published in 1961,...
by Charles Wighton, Gunter Peis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
At Nuremberg, in 1945, General Erwin von Lahousen-Vivremont, head of Abwehr II—the sabotage division of the German Armed Forces Secret Service—shocked the world with his revelations of Nazi war crimes. He exposed the activities of Göring, Ribbentrop, and other top-ranking Third Reich officials....
Ally Betrayed
The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
David Martin, a distinguished journalist, political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, first published his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946. Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich, Martin’s book asks the crucial questions:
Why did...
by Russell Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This is the kind of book you’ve been waiting for about the war—a book by a correspondent who was in the thick of the actual fighting, in the front lines and sometimes ahead of them. Only in North Africa, because of the strange fluid quality of desert tactics, have correspondents actually been...
The Rape of Poland
Pattern of Soviet Aggression
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1948, this is the inside story by the former head of the Polish Government in Exile, and more recently head of the Peasants’ Party in Poland, which tried to find a way to co-operate with the Soviets.
“A raging question in Poland has become, ‘How long will it take them...