I spent most of today doing this not only for me but for other fans of the Eastern Front. - Page 2

Herr Kaleun · #26 (**permalink**) February 18th, 2009, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by C.Evans

...I will probably get that one after I get Island of Fire.Im intrigued about the whole book being about one German Division facing off against one Russian Division.

I just recently received Island of Fire. I purchased it direct from the author Jason Mark at Leaping Horseman Books That saved me some extra US dollars. It took about ten days via airmail from Australia to get here after ordering.

Anywho, this book is brilliant! It is day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of the battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad. Exceptional and masterful work. Great photos and lots and lots of maps (individual building detail) to clearly illustrate the actions described in the text.

I have to finish Robert Kershaw's War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 before I plunge into IoF. Once I received it, it was moved to the top of my "to read" list.

texson66 · #27 (**permalink**) February 18th, 2009, 11:25 PM

Sometimes I use the old Amazon.com search function. Here's what was brought up...

with the eastern front 1941-1945:

Amazon.com: the eastern front 1941-1945: Books

Erich · #28 (**permalink**) February 18th, 2009, 11:32 PM

Carl

are you familiar with German author Sascha Weber ? he has been involved with several high end and extremely informative books on German combat badges. His site has many Ost front titles

and I know you are going to pm me for his web info, which I cannot find at present .....

C.Evans · #29 (**permalink**) February 19th, 2009, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr Kaleun

I just recently received Island of Fire. I purchased it direct from the author Jason Mark at Leaping Horseman Books That saved me some extra US dollars. It took about ten days via airmail from Australia to get here after ordering.

Anywho, this book is brilliant! It is day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of the battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad. Exceptional and masterful work. Great photos and lots and lots of maps (individual building detail) to clearly illustrate the actions described in the text.

I have to finish Robert Kershaw's War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 before I plunge into IoF. Once I received it, it was moved to the top of my "to read" list.

Hi Ivan, thanks for this as well as a link to order it at. I plan on making it my first new book purchase-after I finish buying some 20 odd German photos. This is the kind of book I would love to see many more of. I wonder if there is a book about the brillient Russian defense of "Pavlovs House?. I'd love to see something done on that series of fights.

C.Evans · #30 (**permalink**) February 19th, 2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Erich

Carl

are you familiar with German author Sascha Weber ? he has been involved with several high end and extremely informative books on German combat badges. His site has many Ost front titles

and I know you are going to pm me for his web info, which I cannot find at present .....

Hi E, i've not heard of him before but will send you a PM about it. Sorry to sound choppy.I'm trying to type one-handed and pettingmy Cat Shasta-w/ the other hand ;-))

Martin Bull · #31 (**permalink**) February 21st, 2009, 08:11 AM

Another general history which is worth considering is Chris Bellamy's 'Absolute War - Soviet Russia In The Second World War' ( 2007 ) which is readily available in paperback.

Bellamy is a 'serious' Russian scholar rather in the style of Erickson - this book was supposed to be a definitive single-volume history of the Eastern Front and Bellamy had access to much Russian material.

Unfortunately, the book misses its mark rather by giving too little coverage to the German side - nonetheless it's an important addition to the subject.

hucks216 · #32 (**permalink**) February 21st, 2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by C.Evans

...I wonder if there is a book about the brillient Russian defense of "Pavlovs House?. I'd love to see something done on that series of fights.

I apologise if i have missed this title in the previous threads, but STALINGRAD - HOW THE RED ARMY TRIUMPHED by Michael K Jones (ISBN: 184415543-9) is a very good book with the book concentrating on the battle from the Soviet side, and dispelling many myths/legends that have grown up around the battle - Pavlov's House being just one of them. I would recommend this book.
Again, sorry if I have missed them in previous threads but Jason D Mark's other books on Stalingrad, DEATH OF THE LEAPING HORSEMAN (ISBN: 0-646-41034-2) & ANGRIFF (ISBN: 978-0-97510-767-6), are must haves as well.

The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City: The Battle For Konigsburg, 1945. By: Isabel Denny.L - I found this to be a disappointing read really. It doesn't really delve into the military operations, but I don't think that was the intention.

hucks216 · #33 (**permalink**) February 21st, 2009, 03:17 PM

Here are some more...

Panzerschlacht - Armoured Operations On The Hungarian Plains Sept - Nov 1944 by Perry Moore (ISBN: 978-1-906033-16-3)

Hells Gate (Cherkassy) by Douglas Nash (ISBN: 0-9657584-3-5)

Last Laurels - The German Defence Of Upper Silesia Jan-May 1945 by Georg Gunter (ISBN: 1-874622-65-5)

Rising '44 - The Battle For Warsaw by Norman Franks (ISBN: 0-333-90568-7)

Hitler's Greatest Defeat - The Defeat Of AG Centre, June 1944 by Paul Adair (ISBN: 1-85409-232-4)

Army Group North (ISBN: 0-7643-0182-9)
Army Group Center (ISBN: 0-7643-0266-3)
Army Group South (ISBN: 0-7643-0385-6) - All three volumes by Werner Haupt (published by Schiffer)

halder · #34 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by hucks216

I apologise if i have missed this title in the previous threads, but STALINGRAD - HOW THE RED ARMY TRIUMPHED by Michael K Jones (ISBN: 184415543-9) is a very good book with the book concentrating on the battle from the Soviet side, and dispelling many myths/legends that have grown up around the battle - Pavlov's House being just one of them. I would recommend this book.
Again, sorry if I have missed them in previous threads but Jason D Mark's other books on Stalingrad, DEATH OF THE LEAPING HORSEMAN (ISBN: 0-646-41034-2) & ANGRIFF (ISBN: 978-0-97510-767-6), are must haves as well.

The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City: The Battle For Konigsburg, 1945. By: Isabel Denny.L - I found this to be a disappointing read really. It doesn't really delve into the military operations, but I don't think that was the intention.

Mike Jones' sequel to Stalingrad is excellent too, Leningrad: State of Siege. I guess I'm slightly biased as Mike writes history as I do, with the emphasis on the person rather than regiments, corps and armies. Some of the scenes at Leningrad railway station are truly heart-wrenching.

I was disappointed too by Denny's book, but I think we were sold a pup by the publisher rather than by the author. The title is misleading. It's a history of the city under the Nazis rather than a history of the battle. It's not a bad read, just not the read I was expecting.

I get the impression Christopher Bellamy's volume was cut short either by the author or by the publisher; it's half a book, focusing very much on the early months of the war and then dismissing the final year or so in one chapter - very unlike Erickson...

Richard · #35 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2009, 04:46 PM

Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45
By Catherine Merridale

Hitler's War on Russia
By Charles D. Winchester

Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
By Richard Rhodes

Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards
By Richard N. Armstrong

Deadlock Before Moscow: Army Group Center 1942-1943
By Franz Kurowski

Retreat from Leningrad: Army Group North 1944/1945
By Steven H. Newton

From Leningrad to Berlin: Dutch Volunteers in The German Waffen SS 1941-1945
By Perry Pierik

Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany 1945
By Christopher Duffy

Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45
By Alan Clark

World War II: Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, the Nazis and the West
By Laurence Rees

Richard · #36 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2009, 05:14 PM

Stalin's Generals
By Harold Shukman

Erich · #37 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2009, 05:24 PM

the famous French/German series by Heimdall publications offer several titles

also how about the big book "Berlin then and now" from the After the Battle series, I believe several of our forum members own this large work ?

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C.Evans · #38 (**permalink**) February 27th, 2009, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by hucks216

I apologise if i have missed this title in the previous threads, but STALINGRAD - HOW THE RED ARMY TRIUMPHED by Michael K Jones (ISBN: 184415543-9) is a very good book with the book concentrating on the battle from the Soviet side, and dispelling many myths/legends that have grown up around the battle - Pavlov's House being just one of them. I would recommend this book.
Again, sorry if I have missed them in previous threads but Jason D Mark's other books on Stalingrad, DEATH OF THE LEAPING HORSEMAN (ISBN: 0-646-41034-2) & ANGRIFF (ISBN: 978-0-97510-767-6), are must haves as well.

The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City: The Battle For Konigsburg, 1945. By: Isabel Denny.L - I found this to be a disappointing read really. It doesn't really delve into the military operations, but I don't think that was the intention.

Hi Hucks,I don't think its been listed-and thanks for the title.

C.Evans · #39 (**permalink**) February 27th, 2009, 12:08 AM

Hi Gents, thanks for the additional titles. We have a nice list here and growing.

C.Evans · #40 (**permalink**) March 2nd, 2009, 11:01 PM

After I ger Island of Fire in,I amwanting to get these titles next. I was wondering if an yone has read any of the following and what their opinions of them were?

They are:

"Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards" By: Richard N. Armstrong.

"Deadlock Before Moscow: Army Group Center 1942-1943." By: Franz Kurowski

"Waffen SS Knights and their Battles." By: Peter Mooney.

"The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle For the Factories." By:: Hans Wijers. I KNOW Wijers is a good author but I have not read this book yet and would like anything I can get from anyone who has read this book.

"Armies of the Bear vol.1.: Sovier Rifle Divisions 1917-1957." By: Michael Aranzini.

Im particularly keen on any info and opinions on these last two titles as I want to get them after "Island of Fire."

Any info and opinions would help. Thanks and best regards--C.

Lost Watchdog · #41 (**permalink**) March 3rd, 2009, 10:54 AM

Fall of Hitlers Fortess City: Konisgberg looked interesting so I checked it out on Amazon. Reviews were mixed but the line in Booklist - the source libraries and the like use to pick books - caught my attention.
'The ruined city, renamed Kaliningrad, was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1946, and it is now one of Lithuania's more prosperous municipalities.' ??????
Did something happen to the Kaliningrad Oblast? The book was published in 2007, well after Lithuania split from the old USSR.
I've read Unguary's Battle of Budapest and found it a big heavy going, probably loses something in translation,

~~Vet~~ · #42 (**permalink**) March 3rd, 2009, 12:41 PM

Operation Citadel: A Text and Photo Album, Vol.1. The South. By: J. Restayn & N. Moller Contains 702 pics and is 460 pages

Operation Citadel: A Text and Photo Album, Vol 2 The North.

These are two of the best photo collections of the eastern front I have ever seen.

Richard · #43 (**permalink**) March 3rd, 2009, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by C.Evans

I amwanting to get these titles next. I was wondering if an yone has read any of the following and what their opinions of them were?

"Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards" By: Richard N. Armstrong.

"Deadlock Before Moscow: Army Group Center 1942-1943." By:
Thanks and best regards--C.

Red Army Tank Commanders profiles the six longest serving generals who took charge of the six guards tank army's. Tells the story of each general and there battles and how they took command of these tank army's and there role on the fronts they served on.

The author Mr Armstong, a colonel in the U.S Army, served in military intelligence since 1969.

Over all a well written book which I found nice in the terms of getting info on other than the big generals we all know about.

Deadlock Before Moscow by Franz Kurowski, he uses eye witness accounts and war diaries to tell the events of that year.

As we all know after Moscow a good number of authors moved on to Stalingrad and I always wanted a good book on the central front of that year and thanks to Franz Kurowski that gap is now filled.

Read this one many years ago carl, as I remember I enjoyed this book as it shows the central front did not go static after Moscow.

C.Evans · #44 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard

Red Army Tank Commanders profiles the six longest serving generals who took charge of the six guards tank army's. Tells the story of each general and there battles and how they took command of these tank army's and there role on the fronts they served on.

The author Mr Armstong, a colonel in the U.S Army, served in military intelligence since 1969.

Over all a well written book which I found nice in the terms of getting info on other than the big generals we all know about.

Deadlock Before Moscow by Franz Kurowski, he uses eye witness accounts and war diaries to tell the events of that year.

As we all know after Moscow a good number of authors moved on to Stalingrad and I always wanted a good book on the central front of that year and thanks to Franz Kurowski that gap is now filled.

Read this one many years ago carl, as I remember I enjoyed this book as it shows the central front did not go static after Moscow.

Thank you LostW, Vet, Richard,

Richard, a big thanks for this MAte. I like the sounds of the Red Army Tank Commanders book and sounds like what I need. Franz Kurowiskis book also sounds very good. I have a few of his titles and those were very helpful in my needs.

I found a copy of his book for sale at a bookstore in Austin, TX-not terribly far from here;-)) Im going to order it tomorrow.

Thanks Mate ;-))

C.Evans · #45 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 12:33 AM

Im breaking down cause I can't wait so im ordering Island of Fire tomorrow. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of either the Russian Tank Commanders book and or the Armies of the Bear vol 1 book? I tried googling it-came up nada-and also looked at Amazon-and nada.

wtid45 · #46 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by C.Evans

Im breaking down cause I can't wait so im ordering Island of Fire tomorrow. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of either the Russian Tank Commanders book and or the Armies of the Bear vol 1 book? I tried googling it-came up nada-and also looked at Amazon-and nada.

Carl, i looked and found both on amazon

halder · #47 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by C.Evans

...Franz Kurowisk's book also sounds very good...

It's not. Very, very little by Kurowski is. It's terribly referenced, written in a sort of Nazi-superman heroic style, is very short on fact. If you really, really must have a book on Velikie Luki, then go for it, but before you invest, it's probably worth reading the threads at Feldgrau, Axis History Forum and Panzer Archiv (where he's known 'affectionately' as Evil K).

See e.g.

Axis History Forum • View topic - Kurowski ===== I SHALL RETURN ???!!!

Axis History Forum • View topic - Need Franz Kurowski Biography

Caveat emptor...

C.Evans · #48 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 09:06 PM

Hi Jason, Halder, thanks to you both for the additional. I got lucky and found my first three main titleslisted at Aberdeen-b ut Aberdeen is a bit expensive for Jason Marks book. The other prices look good but ill shop around a bit and et any interested now prices. This means i'll be heading next to Amazon to see what prices on titles I can find there-and will list them here.

C.Evans · #49 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 09:29 PM

My apologies if I list titles already listed by others and myself but I don't have proper time to double check. Im going to list some newly discovered titles and the Aberdeen prices. Thenif I can, ill look around in the coming days for prices of same titles from other dealers and will post them here if anyone is interested?

I got a reply by PM to a question I posted in another book thread and someone wants the new titles I found listed-so I will do so now>

More Eastern Front titles. None covering Air and Sea warfare.

Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat in the East 1944. By: Samuel Mitcham. $27.50.

Ostfront 1944. By: Alex Buchner. $30.00. This book studies defensive battles such as: Cherkassy, Tarnopol, Bobruisk, Crimea, Vitebsk, Brody, Belgrade and Kischnev.

Stumbling Collosses: The Red Army on the Eve of WWII. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Includes complete Soviet OrBats.

Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army. By: Paul Carell. $30.00.

The Battle For Moscow. By: Col. Albert Seaton. $10.00

Zhukov At the Odor: The Decisive Battle For Berlin. $100.00. By: Tony Le Tissier.

The trilogy by: Werner Haupt each is $35.00. Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945.

Assault on Moscow 1941, The Offensive, the Battle, the Setback. By: Werner Haupt. $35.00.

Eastern Front Drama 1944. By: Rolf Heinze. $51.00. About Operation Bagration-the breach in German lines for hundreds of miles, & the destruction of Army Group Center.

Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War. By: David Glantz. $19.00.

Zhukovs Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars 1942. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Zhukovs attempt at dislodging the German forces west of Moscow.

The Battle of Kursk. By: David Glantz. $35.00.

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldiers Memoir of the Eastern Front. By: Gottlob Bidermann. $20.00. Author saw action in the Crimea, Sebastopol, Leningrad, the Kurland Pocket, and his time in various Gulags as an unwilling ""guest"" of the hosting Russians.

More later.

C.Evans · #50 (**permalink**) March 4th, 2009, 09:30 PM

My apologies if I list titles already listed by others and myself but I don't have proper time to double check. Im going to list some newly discovered titles and the Aberdeen prices. Thenif I can, ill look around in the coming days for prices of same titles from other dealers and will post them here if anyone is interested?

I got a reply by PM to a question I posted in another book thread and someone wants the new titles I found listed-so I will do so now>

More Eastern Front titles. None covering Air and Sea warfare.

Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat in the East 1944. By: Samuel Mitcham. $27.50.

Ostfront 1944. By: Alex Buchner. $30.00. This book studies defensive battles such as: Cherkassy, Tarnopol, Bobruisk, Crimea, Vitebsk, Brody, Belgrade and Kischnev.

Stumbling Collosses: The Red Army on the Eve of WWII. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Includes complete Soviet OrBats.

Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army. By: Paul Carell. $30.00.

The Battle For Moscow. By: Col. Albert Seaton. $10.00

Zhukov At the Odor: The Decisive Battle For Berlin. $100.00. By: Tony Le Tissier.

The trilogy by: Werner Haupt each is $35.00. Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945.

Assault on Moscow 1941, The Offensive, the Battle, the Setback. By: Werner Haupt. $35.00.

Eastern Front Drama 1944. By: Rolf Heinze. $51.00. About Operation Bagration-the breach in German lines for hundreds of miles, & the destruction of Army Group Center.

Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War. By: David Glantz. $19.00.

Zhukovs Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars 1942. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Zhukovs attempt at dislodging the German forces west of Moscow.

The Battle of Kursk. By: David Glantz. $35.00.

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldiers Memoir of the Eastern Front. By: Gottlob Bidermann. $20.00. Author saw action in the Crimea, Sebastopol, Leningrad, the Kurland Pocket, and his time in various Gulags as an unwilling ""guest"" of the hosting Russians.

More later.