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Glantz is fantastic, the footnotes alone of "Kursk",or "Kharkov", or "Soviet Military Deception" are better than a dozen full books !
But also John Erickson "Road to Stalingrad" and "Road to Berlin" are fantastic books!
....also Brian Taylor "Barbarossa to Berlin" is a very good book with excellent maps!

ORIGINAL: nikdav

this is a big old masterpiece with many fantastic maps:

MOSCOW TO STALINGRAD: DECISION IN THE EAST
by Earl F. Ziemke and Magna E. Bauer

http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/ ... index.html

and this is the second volume

STALINGRAD TO BERLIN: THE GERMAN DEFEAT IN THE EAST
by Earl F. Ziemke
http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/ ... index.html

When I was in graduate school, I had the privilege of being asked if I wanted to go through Prof. Ziemke's office after he passed away, and take any books I wanted. I grabbed these . Sadly, he passed away before I had the opportunity to actually take a class with him.

Wow, I am fascinated of how these guys write. I just can't fathom the amount of time it takes. I have most of Glantz's books and they have so much information in them. I have Endgame right in front of me in its wrap.

ORIGINAL: nikdav

An interesting interview(1979) with General Hermann Balck, famous commander 11th Panzer Division.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a160703.pdf

Oh god I loved reading this interview. I like his hands on approach and I don't know if it was intentional, but if he has quite some dry humor. Had to laugh more than once. "I wanted mules, but all I got was asses. The biggest problem - they had only two legs instead of four and to small a stride" lol

First I've read the manual and then this and I have to say... the game hits all the right spots with its characters and decisions (e.g. the Guderian - Schell conflict and Balck inbetween).

Anyone know of a similar discussion to Balck and Mallenthin for tactical character of opponents in the West ( French, British, American etc) as well as tactics against them? Whether free or not. My apologies for straying off topic a bit in not being Eastern. But hey might be relevant to future releases
Thanks in advance.

Anybody else unable to get the first vol. of Ziemke to completely d/l? Second vol. came thru fine, first hangs at about 1/3 of it downloaded.

ORIGINAL: Crimso

Anybody else unable to get the first vol. of Ziemke to completely d/l? Second vol. came thru fine, first hangs at about 1/3 of it downloaded.

It took a while but the d/l finished fine for me.

Thx. Worked fine this morning.

Barbarossa Revisited:
A Critical Reappraisal of the Opening Stages of the Russo-German Campaign (June-December 1941)
Russel H.S.Stolfi

http://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle ... sequence=1

Thanks nikk I have this book in the room.

A very interesting and rare study about weather during Barbarossa !


Barbarossa weather..........Neumann and Flohn

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10. ... 2.0.CO%3B2

Barbarossa: the Soviet Response, 1941 an essay by Mark Harrison

https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ ... sa1992.pdf

Thanks Nik for the paper

Another essay by David Glantz

Soviet Military Operations during the Soviet-German War 1941-45 as Indicators of the
USSR’s Postwar Territorial Ambitions and International Influence.

http://www.nids.go.jp/publication/sensh ... 503/07.pdf

This is the best starting point for an alternative Barbarossa Scenario with the Red Army strike first!

ICEBREAKER a very controversial but interesting book by Victor Suvorov


http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pdf_books/icebreaker.pdf

Downloadable PDFs of English translations of Franz Halder's Private War Journal. Volumes VI and VII below concern the war in the Balkans and Eastern Front. Change the last number if you are interested in an other particular volume.

http://militera.lib.ru/db/0/pdf/halder_eng6.pdf

http://militera.lib.ru/db/0/pdf/halder_eng7.pdf

Thanks Drakken, interesting reading!

An essay by John D. Snively interesting for alternative "what if ?" Barbarossa starting campaign and objective.

BARBAROSSA:PLANNING FOR OPERATIONAL FAILURE

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a279709.pdf

Thanks again Nick for these links, I save them and will read, eventually.

What Stalin Knew the Enigma of Barbarossa _ by David Murphy

http://www.reznikov.us/eBooks/Politics/ ... arossa.pdf