Book statistics for 2009
For the first day of the new year we present a compilation of statistics from our website showing the most popular pages for books,
authors, publishers, and subjects for 2009. While these pages received the most visitors during 2009, keep in mind that measuring "page hits" is not the
same thing as determining the "best" of the year. Visitors might have reached these pages for any of a variety of reasons, including sheer accident.
Likewise, books which were in the database and accessible all year long could have a amassed a greater number of visitors than equally popular books
that didn't show up until late in the year. And some of the pages most visited are for books not yet published. So, slice and dice these standings
however you like, but here are the most visited pages at Stone & Stone for the year 2009.
Book pages most visited
1. Rohwer, Jurgen and G. Hummelchen. Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992
2. Glantz, David M. with Jonathan M. House. The Stalingrad Trilogy, volume 1: To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
3. Glantz, David M. with Jonathan M. House. The Stalingrad Trilogy, volume 2: Armageddon in Stalingrad, September-November 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
4. Lunde, Henrik O. Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2009
5. Glantz, David. After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943. Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2009
6. Boiten, Theo. Nachtjagd War Diaries: An Operational History of the German Night Fighter Force in the West, volume 1: September 1939 - March 1944. Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2008
7. Dunning, Chris. Courage Alone: The Italian Air Force, 1940-1943. Crowborough, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2009
8. Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
9. Jones, Michael. The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat. London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2009
10. Shores, Christopher, Hans Ring, and William N. Hess. Fighters over Tunisia. London: Spearman, 1975
11. Kitchen, Martin. Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
12. Downing, David. Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II. New York: Da Capo Press, 2009
13. Husemann, Friedrich. In Good Faith: The History of the 4. SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division, volume 2: 1943-1945. Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2009
14. Lyman, Robert. The Longest Siege: Tobruk, the Battle that Saved North Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company, 2009
15. Engen, Robert. Canadians under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Kingston, Canada: McGill-Queens University, 2009
16. Haarr, Geirr H. The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing / Pen & Sword, 2009
17. Porter, David. Order of Battle: The Red Army in World War II. London: Amber Books, 2009
18. Bishop, Patrick. Battle of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronicle, 10 July 1940 to 1 October 1940. London: Quercus Publishing, 2009
19. Shores, Christopher and Hans Ring. Fighters over the Desert: The Air Battles in the Western Desert, June 1940 to December 1942. New York: Arco Publishing, 1969
20. Tully, Anthony P. Battle of Surigao Strait. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009
Author pages most visited
1. David Glantz
2. Mike Spick
3. Eric Hammel
4. Steve Zaloga
5. Joseph Balkoski
6. Christopher Shores
7. Gordon L. Rottman
8. Mark Yerger
9. Tony Le Tissier
10. Christer Bergstrom
11. Samuel W. Mitcham
12. Norman Franks
13. Antony Beevor
14. Niklas Zetterling
15. Erik Mombeek
16. Paul Carell
17. H.F. Joslen
18. Jon Latimer
19. Lawrence Paterson
20. Leo W. G. Niehorster
Publisher pages most visited
1. The History Press
2. Osprey Publishing
3. Frank Cass Publishers
4. Naval Institute Press
5. Schiffer Publishing Ltd
6. Garland Publishing
7. Arno Press
8. Grub Street
9. Presidio Press
10. J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc
11. Helion & Company
12. University Press of Kansas
13. Academic Publishing Group
14. Patrick Stephens Ltd
15. Smithsonian Institution Press
16. Pen and Sword Books Ltd
17. Casemate
18. Potomac Books Inc
19. Infantry Journal Press
20. Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Subject pages most visited
1. Nations at war
2. Russo-German War, 1941-1945
3. Germany: SS unit histories
4. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945
5. Theory, structure, and practice of National Socialism
6. North Africa campaigns and the Mediterranean, 1940-1943
7. Italian East Africa campaigns, 1940-1941
8. Northwest Europe campaign, 1944-1945: Ground unit histories
9. France, Belgium, and Netherlands campaign, 1939-1940
10. Northwest Europe campaign, 1944-1945
11. Germany: Unit histories of divisions
12. Unit histories
13. Italian campaign, 1943-1945
14. China - Burma - India theater and the Indian Ocean, 1941-1945
15. Iraq campaign, 1941
16. United Kingdom: Regimental histories
17. Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
18. Italian campaign, 1943-1945: Unit histories
19. Biographies and memoirs
20. Operation Barbarossa, June - December 1941
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