COMMENT: Reading List for the Russian Front in World War II

H-War COMMENT: Reading List for the Russian Front in World War II

Discussion published by David Silbey on Thursday, July 9, 2015

Folks--

There was recently a discussion of good books to read for the Russian Front in World War II on the Society for Military History's facebook page. Here's a bibliography of the recommended works (Library of Congress call numbers included when possible). Any additional suggestions more than welcome.

Citino, Robert. Death of the Wehrmacht: the German Campaigns of 1942. Lawrence, KY: University Press of Kansas, 2007. D757 .C56 2007

Citino, Robert. The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighitng a Lost War, 1943. Lawrence, KY: University Press of Kansas, 2012. D757 .C59 2012

Clark, Alan. Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-45. New York: Penguin, 1966. D764 .C55 1967

DiNardo, Richard. Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005. D751 .D56 2005

Dunn, Walter S. Hitler’s Nemesis: The Red Army, 1930-45. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2009. UA772 .D8 2009

Erickson, John. The Road to Berlin: Continuing the History of Stalin’s War with Germany. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.

Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad. London: Cassell, 2003. D764 .E738 2003

Fritz, Stephen. Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. D764 .F737 2011

Glantz, David. Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005. D764 .G5558 2005

Glantz, David. Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998. D764 .G556 1998

Glantz, David and Jonathan House.Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009. D764.3.S7 G588 2009

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Glantz, David and Jonathan House.Endgame at Stalingrad: Book Two: December 1942–-February 1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. D764.3.S7 G5886 2014

Glantz, David and Jonathan House. To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009. D764.3.S7 G59 2009

Glantz, David and Jonathan House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995. D764 .G557 2015

Hayward, Joel S.A. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998. D764 .H374 1998

McKale, Donald M. Hitler's Shadow War: The Holocaust and World War .II Lanham, MA: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002. DS135.G3315 M43 2002

Megargee, Geoff. War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. D764 .M385 2006

Radey, Jack and Charles Sharp.Defense of Moscow 1941, The: The Northern Flank.Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2012.

Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. DK268.S8 R574 2006

Stahel, David. The Battle for Moscow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. D764.3.M6 S819 2015

Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press, 2011. D764 .S795 2009

Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. HC286.3 .T66 2006.

Ziemke, Earl. Stalingrad to Berlin: the German Defeat in the East. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, US Army, 1968. D764 .Z493

Ziemke, Earl. Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1987. D764 .Z4927 1987

(Thanks, Justin!)