Book Recommendations

[Dereck]

Does anybody have any good book recommendations for the eastern front during WWII?

Since I only play the Soviets I "would" like it from the Soviet perspective but one can also learn from the other perspective also.

Are there any books about the Caucasus campaign? My knowledge about that area is very flimsy,

Thank you

[Gray Lensman_MatrixForum]

Does anybody have any good book recommendations for the eastern front during WWII?

Since I only play the Soviets I "would" like it from the Soviet perspective but one can also learn from the other perspective also.

Are there any books about the Caucasus campaign? My knowledge about that area is very flimsy,

Thank you

John Erickson's "The Road to Stalingrad" and the companion book "The Road to Berlin"... Lots of Caucasus info, including the Political machinations in "The Road to Berlin", especially.

[Nazcatraz]

Two words: David Glantz and David Glantz only. The goat of Eastern front books. For the Caucasus campaign you can read his Stalingrad volume 1 that talks about the first few phases of Case Blue.

[Gray Lensman_MatrixForum]

Two words: David Glantz and David Glantz only. The goat of Eastern front books. For the Caucasus campaign you can read his Stalingrad volume 1 that talks about the first few phases of Case Blue.

I've read Glantz's book also... "When Titan's Clashed" is good, but not nearly as operationally detailed as the Erickson books... and if one was looking for historical operational details for WITE, the Erickson books are better, IMO.

If you have the dollars, getting books from both authors is the best.

[Nikel]

A list of books in Oxford bibliographies, I like Bellamy’s Absolute war. The list is made by himself

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/di ... 2-0077.xml



You may see the table of contents in archive.org

https://archive.org/details/absolutewar ... l/mode/1up



For the Caucasus, I only know of an Osprey campaign book by Robert Forczyk.

https://books.google.com/books?id=6rKdC ... navlinks_s


And by the same author

https://books.google.com/books?id=OWE_D ... navlinks_s

[Zovs]

Glantz at times is very dry reading and he is not the only expert.

David Stahl is also very good:

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Barbar ... op?ie=UTF8

[Zovs]

These are old but free and give a good generalization on the east front.

Moscow to Stalingrad
https://history.army.mil/html/books/030 ... index.html

Stalingrad to Berlin
https://history.army.mil/html/books/030 ... index.html

[Zovs]

You can read John Erickson's books online.

The Road to Stalingrad:
https://archive.org/details/roadtostalingrad0000eric

The Road to Berlin:
https://archive.org/details/roadtoberli ... c/mode/2up

[Dereck]

Thanks everyone. Seems most of those books I've already added to my WITE library.

Here are the books in my WITE library:

Paul Adair
- Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944

Duncan Anderson, Lloyd Clark and Stephan Walsh
- The Eastern Front

Chris Bellamy
- Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

Bob Carruthers (editor)
- Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East

Robin Cross
- Citadel: The Battle of Kursk

Keith Cumins
- Cataclysm: The War on the Eastern Front 1941-45

Jonathan Dimbleby
- Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm

John Erickson
- The Road to Berlin
- The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany

Robert Forczyk
- Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt
- Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945: Red Steamroller

Charles River Editors
- Operation Barabarossa: The History of Nazi Germany's Invasion of the Soviet Union During World War II

Stephan G. Frits
- Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East

Svetlana Gerasimova
- The Rzhev Slaughterhouse: The Red Army's Forgotten 15-month Campaign Against Army Group Center, 1942-1943

Lt. Col. David Glantz
- The Great Patriotic War and the Maturation of Soviet Operational Art 1941-1945

David M. Glantz
- Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941

David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House
- When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

Christian Hartmann
- Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945

E.R. Hooton
- War over the Steppes: The Air Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-45

Geoffrey Jukes
- Stalingrad to Kursk: Triumph of the Red Army

James Lucas
- War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941-1945

Henrik O. Lumde
- Finland's War of Choice: The Troubles German-Finnish Alliance in World War II

Rupert Matthews
- Stalingrad: The Battle that Shattered Hitler's Dream of World Domination

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr
- The Men of Barbarossa: Commanders of the German Ivasion of Russia, 1941

John Mosier
- Deathride: Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945

David E. Murphy
- What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa

Richard Overy
- Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

William L. Shirer
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

LCDR John D. Snively
- Barbarossa: Planning for Operational Failure

David Stahel
- Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
- Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
- Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
- Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
- The Battle for Moscow

David R. Stone (editor)
- The Soviet Union at War 1941-1945

Anthony Tucker-Jones
- Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941-1945
- Stalin's Armour 1941-1945: Soviet Tanks at War

U.S. Department of Defense
- German Campaign in Russia: Planning and Operations (1940-1942)

Alexander Werth
- Russia at War 1941-1945

Earl F. Ziemke and Magna E. Bauer III
- Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East
- Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East

[tyronec]

A few biographies:
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade 'Wallonien' 1942–45 - this is a great read.

Stuka Pilot by Hans Ulrich Rudel - also very readable.

Lost Victories: War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General: The War Memoirs of Hilter's Most Brilliant General.

Video series by TIK on YouTube are excellent. A lot of research, good maps... https://www.youtube.com/@TheImperatorKnight/featured
Battlestorm Stalingrad is about 50 hours worth.
Battlestorm The Courland Pocket 6 hours.
Quite a few references too.

[HardLuckYetAgain]

Love this General and book. I feel his stats in the game dont do him justice.

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[Nikel]

He was also a gentleman


“In 1943 or 1944, when I was the commanding general of the XLVIII Panzer Corps, I was together one day with other gentlemen of the army high command. After dinner the ladies of the Russian theater came in to dance with us. They had all been checked out and were fanatical anti-communists, we were assured. An intelligent, German-speaking, somewhat older actress sat down next to me. After a short while as we were conversing she said: “I am naturally a convinced communist. The Bolshevik revolution has liberated us women from the slavery of the church and the husband. Now we are free human beings. We get married for love and to whomever we want. That is the difference between us; you do not marry for love but for financial and business reasons. I was rather shocked. But I did not betray the lady’s trust and kept her disclosures to myself.”

[Kahawa]

Consider Kotkin's "Stalin" biography. Volume 3 will cover the war, though it's not out yet. Volumes 1 & 2 are an excellent tour of the Soviet regime.