Important books about World War II

Extracted from various forums and discussions.

For Stalingrad/Leningrad: STALINGRAD: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught Leningrad: State of Siege Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942 Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942 Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad Kursk: The Battle of Kursk Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative The Forsaken Army Gerlach Heinrich novel Stalingrad The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 The Battle for Stalingrad BY WILLIAM CRAIG Air War: Barbarossa: The Air Battle July-December 1941 Stalingrad: The Air Battle: 1942-January 1943 Kursk: The Air Battle, July 1943 Bagration to Berlin: The Final Air Battles in the East 1944-1945 Black Cross/Red Star : Vol. 1, Operation Barbarossa 1941 Black Cross / Red Star: The Air War Over The Eastern Front, Vol. 2 - Resurgence: January - June 1942 Black Cross Red Star: The Air War Over the Eastern Front Volume 3 German Army: War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality

The Unknown Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht and Hitler's Foreign Soldiers Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 Partisans: Defiance Stalin's Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War II Holocaust/Genocide: Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

General accounts: When Titans Clashed Russia at War Thunder in the East Absolute War Hitler's War in the East The Road to Stalingrad The Road to Berlin A Writer at War THE ROLE OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A Re-examination Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II

If you're interested in memoirs I'd suggest: Blood on the Shores Over the Abyss Sniper on the Eastern Front

GUNS AGAINST THE REICH: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front PANZER DESTROYER: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945 Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections Of A Soviet Infantryman Red Star Against the Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45

BUT NOT FOR THE FUEHRER: Through Hell for Hitler A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944

Barbarossa: War Without Garlands: Barbarossa 1941/42 BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941 VOLUME 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941 Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East Kiev 1941 Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941 THE VIAZ'MA CATASTROPHE, 1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon THE DEFENSE OF MOSCOW 1941: The Northern Flank What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union

Other suggestions: Siege of Leningrad: 900 days of terror by David M. Glantz Red Phoenix Rising by Von Hardesty and Ilya Goldberg (about the Soviet Air Force) Red Army Tank Commander by Vasiliy Bryukhov (Memoir of a Soviet Tank Commander)

Guns Against the Reich by Petr Mikhin (Memoir of a Soviet Artillery gunner) Eastern Front Combat: The German soldier from Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers (Stories collected from German soldiers who served from Stalingrad to Berlin)

Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger Berlin Dance of Death by Helmut Altner BLOOD RED SNOW - The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front With Our Backs To Berlin - Tony le Tissier Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust - Richard Rhodes

In no particular order: The Battle of Kursk (Glantz) When Titans Clashed (Glantz) Zhukov's Greatest Defeat (Glantz) Stalingrad (Beevor) Berlin 1945 (Beevor) Lost Victories (Mannstein) Memories of a Soldier (Guderian) Red Army Handbook (Zaloga) The Last Battle (Ryan) Panzer Battles (vonMellenthin) The Forgotten Soldier (Guy Sajer) In The Firestorm of the Last Years of the War (Wilhelm Tieke) War on The Eastern Front (James Lucas) Frontsoldaten (Stephen G. Fritz) Red Phoenix (Von Hardesty) The War Diary of Helmut Lipfert (Lipfert and Gerbirg) Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (William Craig) Black Cross, Red Star (multi-book series) (Christer Berstrom and Andrey Mikhailov) Panzer Aces (Franz Kurowski) Stuka Pilot (Hans-Ulrich Rudel) In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front (Gottlob Herbert Biedermann) Condemned to Live: A Panzer Artilleryman's Five-Front War (Franz A. P. Frisch) Panzer Commander : The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck (Hans Von Luck) Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 (Siegfried Knappe) Women In Air War: The Eastern Front Of WWII (Kazimiera Cottam) Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-45 (Alan Clark) German Battle Tactics on the Russian Front 1941-45 (Steven H. Newton)

Tigers in the Mud (Otto Carius) Heavens of War (Alexander Pokryshkin) (probably available in Russian only) Stalin's Falcons (Tomas Polak, Christopher Shores) Stalins Eagles (Hans Seidl) Hunters in the Sky (James R. Whelan, Herbert Mallory Mason) Cross of Iron [novel] (Willi Heinrich) Crack of Doom [novel] (Willi Heinrich) Dance with Death (Anne Nogle) Swastika in the Gunsight (Igor Kaberov) [Jagdwaffe] Barbarossa, The Invasion of Russia June-December 1941 (Eric Mombeek, et al) [Jagdwaffe] The War In Russia, January - October 1942 (Eric Mombeek, et al) Im Auge des Jaegers (Franz Karner) Front de l'Est 1941-1945 (Leon Degrelle) Stopped at Stalingrad, the Luftwaffe and Hitler's defeat in the East (Joel Hayward) Soviet Combat Aircraft, Vol's 1 & 2 (Yefim Gordon, Dmitri Khazanov) Attack of The Airacobras (Dmitriy Loza) The Blond Knight Of Germany (Toliver and Constable) Graf & Grislawski: A Pair of Aces (Christer Bergstrom)