I spent most of today doing this not only for me but for other fans of the Eastern Front.

Good luck. I'm pretty certain none have ever appeared, although some might. See, inter alia, here

Axis History Forum • View topic - What happened to Christer Bergstrom's BoB book?

The firm's website is still going:

Leandoer & Ekholm - English version

Even if it turns up, it won't help much when it comes to fighting in Czechoslovakia; that book's about the fighting for Warsaw in 1944.

 

I think 200 pounds is NUTS to ask for and a bit way too much for a new book-I don't care what's in it? Sooner or later, someone like Hans Wijers, Werner Haupt, Franz Kurowski etc, will do a book on that subject and probably will be as good as or better than the expensive one.

I know a feller who is compiling important lists of names for a massive book or maybe a series of a few Volumns when done? that will absolutely knock the socks off of many similar type books. That guys book will nt be completed for a few years yet.

 

Ill start posting more E/Front titles soon as this server prob for this site is working better.. Ive already lst several long posts trying to post info here :-(

 

Hi hucks!! any update on that book? I got it sitting on my shopping basket ready to order it.

 

If you scroll down Pg 6 of this thread I wrote a brief review of what I had read so far
It is a reader friendly book, I sit down to read it and before I know it I have breezed through 10 pages or so.

 

Just yesterday I discovered another what is supposed to e THE best of Soviet OrBat book series-of 12 parts. I forgot to write down title and author info but will do so when I get the next chance to go back and find it out. I do remember each volume is $20 bucks per.

 

Not sure if this really counts but yesterday I picked up a copy of The winter War, by Eloise Engle & Lauri Paananen looks really intresting and has a pic and brief mention of Simo Hayha the Finish sniper mentioned by Carl in a earlier post.

 

Hi Jason, thats a good book from what I have heard. Also, there is oen about Simo and his "victories" which has a similar title. Imgetting that one too when I have the more pressing books I need to get. In still awaiting the confirmation of that DKiG book I want and in a bad way.

 

Can anyone please tell me the diference between these two books:
Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945, by Erhard Raus
and
Panzers on the Eastern Front: General Erhard Raus and his Panzer Divisions in Russia, 1941-1945 (World War II German Debriefs), by Peter Tsouras.
I'm feeling more inclined to the Raus one, but since i have no information on either, i might be wrong.

 

Hi L, I don't know yet but had planned on asking the same thing two two book dealers I buy from.

 

The Bloody Triangle - the defeat of Soviet armor in the Ukraine, June 1941.
Finally it's here!!! and here it goes another mile of post.
The book about the infamous battle of Brody, the one that probably nobody ever heard about.
They say it was bigger than Kursk, and this book tells it's story.
Well, from June 24 to July 1, roughly 650 German and 650 German tanks and 180 assault guns and tank destriyers fought over 1.500 Soviet tanks in a roughly triangular area of approximately 1.800 square miles between the northwestern Ukranian towns of Lutsk, Dubno and Brody.
This book details what it calls "this titanic clash".
You get the usual structure with these books, the first 75 pages deal with the German plans, how the Soviet were on the eve of the war, the dispositions, organization ans strength os the Kiev Special Military District, and so on...
The for the next almost 200 pages it's the battle, or battles "per si".
Maybe one of the reason this "battle" isn't so well known it's because it's not just one battle, but quite a few, you get the feeling this was a running battle, the German juggernaut pushing forward, the soviets trying to hold on and delay such an advance.
Part II of the book deals with the battle itself, from June 22 until July 2, and the important thing to note here is, it's not a balanced account, it's a soviet account of the battle, period!
It deals with the german advances, but you don't have quotes from german participants or quotes from books, the german aspect serves only to set the stage for the soviet perspective, which then proceeds to follow all the various mechanized corps, and it's comings and going during this period, the wealth of information on the soviet side is very impressing.
My personal problem is that i've always found the soviet perspective kind of boring, or it's very contained, or it's very propangadized, and i think in this book in particular, the german side of the battle is overlooked, what a book it would be if it were more balanced in terms of sources from both sides.
But the author itself declares in the preface "Describing the events above, this work relies heavily on numerous memoirs of soviet and, to a lesser extent, German participants in the conflict".
I quite like this book (although from all the above it doesn't seem so ), maybe i was expecting something else, but this definitely is a worthy addition to any Eastern Front collection.
Although you have quite a few x tanks from Mechanized corps went for y to z, i didn't find the book "dry", just the usual dryness associated with this subject.
As for maps, i liked them, but expect a Michael Reynolds type of map organization (i.e. all the maps are in the end of the book).

And now for a little confession, although i'm enjoying this book, i must confess that i'm enjoying Rolf Heinze's "To the Bitter End" more.

 

Found two more books on Bagration.
Dunn's Soviet Blitzkrieg (which i have here and will try to tell you something about it soon);
and Mitcham's Crumbling Empire.
Both are from Stackpole, Dunn's book has the soviet medal symbol and Mitcham's the Knight's Cross symbol, so i reckon the first is more from the soviet side and the second more from the German.
Also like the book hucks read, both are about 300, almost 300 pages long, so if you take at least 75/85 pages for introductions, and setting up the scene, and then at least 20 pages for appendixes it will leave at least 200 or less than 200 pages of battle.... we'll see.
I'll try and review Dunn's book as soon as possible. If anyono has read Mitcham's please post your opinion about it.

On a side note, Janusz Piekalkiewicz works are any good?

 

Any good photos?

 

Nah!! About 12 of damaged materiel, and about 4 of prisoners. That's basicaly it.

 

If anyone's interested, this issue of WWII History features and awesome article by George Nipe Jr. on the Prokhorovka encounter in the 12th of July, focusing on the exploits of young Obersturmführer Rudolf Ribbentrop, and also deals with the way 1st, 2nd and 3rd SS Panzer faced the russian counterattacks.
Very very interesting, i don't know if this article was taken from his next book (which i have no idea about what it is), but if it is I want it!!!!

 

Hucks I just received this book and I agree. A great book. One of the best on this particular subject.

 

I haven't had time to update this list with German titles yet-but will do so at next opportunity.

 

It's far from complete (hardly surprising given the scale of the conflict, but this gives a very good overview of books in German, English and Russian available:

Hitler's war in the East, 1941-1945 ... - Google Book Search

 

Thanks for the link-it gave some very nice titles.

 

Just one or two quick points, found this title on amazon.uk, its scheduled to be released in August Crucible of Combat: Germany's Defensive Battles in the Ukraine 1943-1944: Rolf Hinze: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Can anyone tell me something about this title: Beyond Stalingrad - Manstein and the Operations of Army Group Don, by Dana Sadarananda.

Maybe by the end of the week i'll have a little more time and review a couple of Eastern Front books i've been reading (i think no one mentioned them here yet) both are very interesting, but one was a very good and pleasant surprise.

Gotta go....