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The Merriam Press publishes a wide variety of books on military history with a special emphasis on World War II. Veterans memoirs and histories of units, weapons, aircraft, warships, military vehicles, uniforms, insignia, medals, are some of the subjects covered in the ever-growing range of books published by the Merriam Press.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $34.95 Memoir by an Army artilleryman from training in the U.S. to service in Africa and Italy with the 35th Field Artillery. 125 pages, 36 photos.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $39.95 Presents 25 articles on the units, weapons, equipment, uniforms and insignia, awards, operations, references. Also includes the complete U.S. War Dept. Military Intelligence Service publication, Special Series 28: German Mountain Troops, published in December 1944. 328 pages, 316 photos, 42 illustrations, 4 maps, 17 tables.
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Download: $5.00 Hardcover Print: $39.95 The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman. What happens when an Ivy League preppy is suddenly dumped from a comfortable college environment into combat as a rifleman? Hadden knew that he would find no glory in a foxhole, and for the first two years of his service managed to avoid answering that question. Knowing he would never be a hero, he said "Not me!" to the Air Corps and "Not me!" to the OSS. But like a moth to the flame, he was sucked into war's vortex. And so it was that in the early morning hours of 16 December 1944—the date the Germans launched their surprise Ardennes Offensive—Hadden found himself exactly where he dreaded to be: in a front line foxhole with the 28th Div., stupefied by the first assault. And it goes on to document how almost miraculously the survivors rose above their "chickenshit" training and their misguided and even cowardly leadership. It strips away the veneer that cloaks most combat writing and lays bare what soldiers really think. 30 photos, 3 maps.
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Print: $24.95 Download: $5.00 The World War II Memoir of a Reluctant Rifleman. What happens when an Ivy League preppy is suddenly dumped from a comfortable college environment into combat as a rifleman? Hadden knew that he would find no glory in a foxhole, and for the first two years of his service managed to avoid answering that question. Knowing he would never be a hero, he said "Not me!" to the Air Corps and "Not me!" to the OSS. But like a moth to the flame, he was sucked into war's vortex. And so it was that in the early morning hours of 16 December 1944—the date the Germans launched their surprise Ardennes Offensive—Hadden found himself exactly where he dreaded to be: in a front line foxhole with the 28th Div., stupefied by the first assault. And it goes on to document how almost miraculously the survivors rose above their "chickenshit" training and their misguided and even cowardly leadership. It strips away the veneer that cloaks most combat writing and lays bare what soldiers really think. 30 photos, 3 maps.
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Print: $17.95 Download: $10.00 Pictorial study of the Japanese Army Air Force twin engine reconnaissance fighter of World War II, which was given the code name "Dinah" by the Allies. 143 B&W photos (one per page).
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Print: $24.95 Download: $10.00 Pictorial record of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber of World War II. Its genesis from earlier Boeing aircraft, through design and construction of prototypes and service models, through combat. 258 photos, drawings.
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Download: $10.00 Hardcover Print: $37.95 The military leadership of Japan, dominated by the ages-old clans of the samurai class, embarked on a war in 1941 believing that the Americans and British wouldn’t fight, but they also knew that Japan could not win a prolonged war. If the West didn't quit, well, the Japanese had no contingency for that. So why did Japan start a war at all? This and other questions are addressed in this new book. Other topics include: With a few exceptions, the Japanese Army was not well equipped, but was trained to attack even if the situation was hopeless; the Japanese Navy was never adequate to the task required of it in the Pacific War and the merchant fleet was even wors; the Japanese air forces suffered from acute shortages throughout the conflict that were often the result of their industrial shortcomings. Beatty and Rochwerger discuss these and many other issues in this provocative and imaginative inquiry into Japan in World War II. Photos, index.
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Print: $22.95 Download: $10.00 A collection of photos of American, British, Canadian, Soviet, German, and French tanks (M4 Sherman, M3 Stuart, M3 Lee, Churchill, Tiger I/II, PzKpfw III, Char B, KVII, T-34 and more), half-tracks, armored cars, trucks, jeeps, self-propelled guns, amphibious vehicles, tractors, carriers, tank transporters, and more. 224 photos (one per page).
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Print: $24.95 Download: $10.00 502 B&W photos of American warplanes of World War II. Attack aircraft (A-18, A-20, A-26, A-29, A-35, A-36), bombers (B-17, B-24, XB-19, XBLR-3, XB-28, XB-35, XB-38, XB-39, XB-40, YB-40, XB-41, XB-42, XB-44, PB4Y-2, PBO), fighters (XP-81, XP-82, XP-83, F3F, F4F, FM, F4U, FG-1, F2G-1, XF5F-1, XF5U-1, F6F, F7F, XF8B-1, V-141, XP-79B), cargo planes (C-73), flying boats (PBY, PB2M, PBN, XPBB-1, XPBS-1, PH), trainers (AT-6, AT-9, AT-10, AT-11, AT-12, AT-17, XBT-17, XAT-21), utility aircraft (UC-61, UC-78, GB2), gliders (XCG-17, PG-2).
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Print: $27.95 Download: $10.00 Paperback. Robinson's memoir of his wartime service as a Naval officer on PT boats and LSTs, including his part in rescuing John F. Kennedy after PT 109 was sunk, which is the first true account told by an eyewitness, as Robinson was on one of the boats patrolling the same area as JFK's. Kennedy was Robinson's tent mate and as a result his work provides details never published before. See the contents pages in the preview for more details. Photos, maps.
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