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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
Richard Overy
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1998
Russia's War
+ German Officers make Bad Food Choices and Blew It
+ Foremost Cause of Soviet Victory: Stalin
+ The Forgotten Front
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Chris Bellamy
Knopf, 2007
explores unknown territory
+ This Can't Be Happening
+ Good for what it is
Chris Bellamy's 'Absolute War' truly fills up a big 'white spot' in our knowledge of the Hitler/Stalin-conflict from 1941-'45: the workings of the Soviet-Russian leadership.
Up to now, we always had to deduct from German sources what happened at the other side of the front. Recently granted ...
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Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War Two on the Eastern Front
Constantine Pleshakov
Houghton Mifflin, 2005
Great Reading, Informative and Passionate
+ You will surely love it
+ A good but not flawless account of those first ten days
Pleshakov is a young historian that deserves to be considered as a nascent star by any history buff and so taken into acount seriously in any endeavour he can or could undertake. This book about the first 10 days of war in the Eastern front is not only full of information, much of it new, but well ...
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To the Bitter End: The Final Battles of Army Groups North Ukraine, A, Centre, Eastern Front, 1944-45
Rolf Hinze
Helion and Company Ltd., 2006
Title Says It All
The title does indeed say it all. An excellent book you won't put down "To The bitter End". This really is a superb addition to the literature in English about these battles, and all credit to the translator!
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The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin`s War with Germany, Volume One (Erickson, John, Stalin's War With Germany, V. ...
John Erickson
Yale University Press, 1999
Easily the best book on the topic
+ Very good detail of the Soviet side
+ lacks maps
+ It really is a masterpiece!
+ Colossal conflict
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The Fall of Berlin 1945
Antony Beevor
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003
brutal end to a brutal war
+ A well written history book
+ Haunting...
This is a story of epic violence, the final act of staggering and extended violence of the Second World War in Europe, the campaign for, envelopment and destruction of Berlin and a good share of its population, by the Red Army. Beevor's book is riveting, well written, engrossing, and emotionally ...
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HELL'S GATE: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket January to February 1944
Douglas Nash
RZM Publishing, 2002
Outstanding History
+ POWERFUL! you will want to read it over and over
+ OSTFRONT EPIC
+ Hell's Gate
+ The Telling of a Desperate Struggle
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Red Storm On The Reich: The Soviet March On Germany, 1945
Christopher Duffy
Da Capo Press, 1993
An indispensable account of the Eastern Front battles
+ Essential WWII Reading
+ Interesting Look at the final days of the 1000 Year Reich
This is a fine and well known book about the operations in the Eastern Front in 1945 which usually remain at the sidelines of World War II histories. The author is a renowned military writer and a specialist on Frederick the Great's campaigns, a fact that served him well in his attempt to recount ...
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The Eastern Front, 1941-45 : German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare (St. Antony's Series)
Omer Bartov
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
Important and excellent book
+ The Shocking Facts
+ Social Factors Of Wehrmacht Participation In Barbarossa!
This book should be on the shelf of every student of WW II history. Bartov is one of the first historians to detail in English the real truth behind the shameful conduct of the German army on the Eastern front and dispel the myth of the "honorable" German army that was propogated during the years ...
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Germany and the Second World War: Volume VI: The Global War (Germany and the Second World War)
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Economic History
+ Germany World War II A Global War
I've never written a review before, but the review posted here has shocked me so badly I'm forced to give my opinion on the Title.
"saw a reference to this book that praised it very highly. I thought about buying it, but not at this insane price. The book is only about 350 pages long. I suppose ...
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Before Stalingrad: Barbarossa, Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941 (Battles & Campaigns)
David M. Glantz
Tempus, 2003
Concise summary of Barbarossa to the Soviet Winter Offensive
+ A must read on the initial phase of the German-Soviet war
+ Excellent, but very dry history
+ A Tough Read, But Rewarding
+ Soviet reasons for failure of Barbarossa
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Decision In the Ukraine, Summer 1943, II. SS and III. Panzerkorps
George Nipe
Fedorowicz (J.J.),Canada, 1996
Battle of Kursk as it really was
+ First class military history!
+ my thoughts about the chance of german partial vicotry in the south wing of kursk
+ Putting History Right
+ Very good book.
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The Road to Berlin (Stalin's War with Germany Volume II) (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
John Erickson
Cassell, 2004
Best book on the Russian-German war
John Erickson's 2-part history of the Soviet-German war in 1941-1945 is the definitive English-language publication on the topic, and this is the second volume. Because the Second World War was basically won and lost on the Eastern Front, and because conquest of the Soviet Union and the rest of ...
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The Soviet General Staff at War 1941 - 1945
Sergei Matveevich Shtemenko
University Press of the Pacific, 2001
...Stalin arrived at eight o'clock. Novikov reported to him that two aircraft were ready for immediate take-off. One would be piloted by Colonel-General Golovanov, the other by Colonel Grachov... Novikov invited the Supreme Commander to fly in Golovanov's plane. Stalin appeared, at first, to accept the invitation, but after taking a few paces, suddenly stopped. "Colonel-Generals don't do much ...
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Stalingrad to Berlin
Earl F. Ziemke
University Press of the Pacific, 2002
Very clear operational picture
+ Most accurate general Eastern Front history
This book exposes clearly what happened in land operations in the second part of Eastern front war. Rates in the Erickson's league, probably not in detail but with more clear maps.
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