In the late 1970s, the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (German Armed Forces Military History Research Office

German Armed Forces Military History Research Office

The German Armed Forces Military History Research Office is located at Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, Germany.-Mission:...

) in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany undertook to produce a comprehensive, quasi-official history of the Second World War. The resulting 10-volume work was published in German

The German Reich and the Second World War

The German Reich and the Second World War is a 12,000 page, 13-volume set of books published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt DVA, which has taken academics from the military history centre of the German armed forces 30 years to finish....

 between 1979 and 2008 in 13 parts.

In 1990, Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

) began publishing an English translation of the German work. This effort is on-going, with 9 of the 13 parts having been published at a rate of one approximately every two years.

In the following table, the publishing dates of the final four parts are approximate. Those for Volume IX/II and Volume VIII were provided by email communication with Oxford University Press, and those for X/I and X/II are extrapolations based on past translation rates. Also, the titles and number of pages are based on the existing German volumes and may change slightly.

Germany and the Second World War

Volume	Title	Authors	Translators	Publication Date	Pages	Availability	ISBN
I	The Build-up of German Aggression	Wilhelm Deist, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, Wolfram Wette	P.S. Falla, Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers Ewald Osers Ewald Osers , was a Czech translator born in Austria-Hungary. He was one of the most outstanding translators of Central European literature into English.-Career:...	1990	827	On-demand reprints
II	Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe	Klaus A. Maier, Horst Rohde, Bernd Stegemann, Hans Umbreit	Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers, P.S. Falla (translation editor)	1991	459	On-demand reprints
III	The Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939-1942	Gerhard Schreiber, Bernd Stegemann, Detlef Vogel	Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers, Louise Willmot, P.S. Falla (translation editor)	1995	840	On-demand reprints
IV *	The Attack on the Soviet Union	Horst Boog, Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Gerd R. Ueberschär	Dean S. McMurry, Ewald Osers, Louise Willmot	1998	1396	On-demand reprints
V/I	Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1939-1941	Bernhard R. Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Umbreit	John Brownjohn, Patricia Crampton, Ewald Osers, Louise Willmot	2000	1253	On-demand reprints
V/II	Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources 1942-1944/5	Bernhard R. Kroener, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Hans Umbreit	Derry Cook-Radmore, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, Barbara Wilson	2003	1183	In-print
VI	The Global War	Horst Boog, Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf, Bernd Wegner	Ewald Osers, John Brownjohn, Patricia Crampton, Louise Willmot	2001	1347	On-demand reprints
VII	The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943-1944/5	Horst Boog, Gerhard Krebs, Detlef Vogel	Derry Cook-Radmore, Francisca Garvie, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, Barbara Wilson	2006	928	In-print
VIII	The War in the East and in Other Fronts 1943/44 (approximate title)	Karl-Heinz Frieser, Klaus Schmider, Klaus Schönherr, Gerhard Schreiber, Krisztián Ungváry, Bernd Wegner	TBA	2012 (approximate)	1350 (approximate)	To be published	TBA
IX/I	German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival	Ralf Blank, Jörg Echternkamp, Karola Fings, Jürgen Förster, Winfried Heinemann, Tobias Jersak, Armin Nolzen, Christoph Rass	Derry Cook-Radmore, Francisca Garvie, Ewald Osers, Barry Smerin, Barbara Wilson	2008	1072	In-print
IX/II	German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretations, Exclusion (approximate title)	Bernhard Chiari, Jörg Echternkamp, et al.	TBA	Late 2010 (approximate)	1150 (approximate)	To be published	TBA
X/I	The Collapse of Germany 1945 and the Results of the Second World War: The Destruction of the Wehrmacht (approximate title)	Rolf-Dieter Müller, et al.	TBA	2014 (approximate)	1000 (approximate)	To be published	TBA
X/II	The Collapse of Germany 1945 and the Results of the Second World War: The Resolution of the Wehrmacht and the Consequences of the War	Rolf-Dieter Müller, et al.	TBA	2016 (approximate)	850 (approximate)	To be published	TBA

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